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Learn how to use the comment box in learning logs for effective feedback. Practical guidelines and tips for giving concrete and specific feedback. Focus on improving behaviors in a timely manner.
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Learning Log Entries How Do We Use the Comment Box?
What is the box for? • Any guidelines?
Formal Guidelines • None on RCGP • None on Deanery Website • None in Ram Mehay’s “bible”
So how do we use it? • Feedback Skills apply to the comments box! • What we do in practice • What should we be doing?
Feedback • Based on the entry (observation) • Practical • Timely – yes you do need to read and make comments every week! • Concrete and specific • Descriptive • How they can improve
Feedback Continued • Focus on the positive • Focus on behaviours that can be changed. • When giving –ve feedback suggest alternative behaviours • Try not to minimise or collude.
Karen’s method • 3 stars and a wish
Reflection • Unpacking clinical reasoning and decision making • Discussing ethical values and beliefs • Guiding them in patient care
Some suggested phrases • Did it go as planned –if not why not? • If doing it again what would you do differently? • This is what I think you might do differently in the future • How did you feel? • How do you think the patient felt? • What made you think that? • What do you think you might try first?
Learning Log Entry • Check the accuracy of the matching • Base matching on “what did I learn” • Encourage them not to overmatch • Comment on accuracy of the matching. • Correct factual inaccuracies. • Give further information. • Illustrate with own experience. • Suggest further learning.