Next submission deadlines
● 12 noon on Friday, 25 August 2017
● 12 noon on Friday, 23 February 2018
Completing your Reflective Portfolio Assignment: guidelines and tips
The full guidance for the Reflective Portfolio Assignment contains details including:
- what we are looking for
- our marking criteria
- submission dates
- assignment layout
As well as the marking criteria, you should read our tips on preparing to write your assignment and our tips on completing your assignment before you start.
Example essays
These are examples of essays which have been awarded a ‘PASS’ (The authors have given us permission to share their work.)
● Essay 1 Essay 1 markers' comments
● Essay 2 Essay 2 markers' comments
● Essay 3 Essay 3 markers' comments
You will notice that the essays are different from one another. Each one has been awarded a 'PASS’ because it is a personal, honest and critically reflective account of the author's development as a clinical educator.
Marking scheme
The standards required for your assignment to pass come from, and are consistent with, those of the University of Edinburgh’s current Postgraduate Common Marking Scheme.
This means your assignments will be awarded a ‘PASS’, ‘NOT YET PASS’ or ‘FAIL’. The marker and moderator will compile feedback on your assignment based on our marking guidelines.
If the Board of Examiners decide that your assignment does not meet the criteria to pass, they will mark it as ‘NOT YET PASS’. If this happens, you should arrange to have a discussion with a member of the Programme team.
You can resubmit your assignment once. The resubmission date will be the next deadline for assignment submissions for the Programme.
If, when you resubmit it, your assignment still does not yet qualify as a 'PASS', it will be awarded a ‘FAIL’. If this happens, you will not be able to complete Level 3 of the CEP at this attempt If you wished to try to attain Level 3, you would need to undertake the whole Programme again, and we would support this.
The UK Professional Standards Framework (Higher Education Academy)
The UK Professional Standards Framework can help you assess your own clinical education practice.
It is a good idea to complete it before you start your assignment. Many participants have found it useful to complete the Framework at different times throughout the CEP. For example, when they start the Programme, after they have had their teaching observation and before they start the assignment.
Clinical Educator Programme learning cards
The CEP learning cards help you record, and reflect on, what you learn during the workshops. Your reflections will help you gather the evidence you need to complete your assignment.
In case you did not complete the learning cards after you attended the workshops, here are links to all of them:
● Effective Supervision Learning Card (new 2 hour)
● Effective Supervision Learning Card (old 3 hour)
● Giving Effective Feedback Learning Card
● Impromptu Clinical Teaching Learning Card
● Introduction to the MBChB Learning Card (old/pre 2016)
● Introduction to the MBChB Learning Card (new/from 2016)
● Introduction to Simulation Learning Card
● Mentoring Skills Learning Card
● Planning and Evaluating Your Teaching Learning Card
● Presentation Skills Learning Card
● Small Group Teaching Learning Card