E-Portfolio Now available to International members!
The RCGP wants all its members,
whether in the UK or overseas, to be able to access the same
benefits and services, so in July 2011 the RCGP Revalidation
e-Portfolio was made available to overseas and international
members.
International and overseas
members can use the e-Portfolio to record CPD and PDP and may wish
to use the tool simply to store information to export for
discussion with a colleague or appraiser at a later date. They may
wish to use it to document achievements if they are considering
becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs.
UK-based GPs can give their
appraiser access to their e-Portfolio but because this function
requires the user to work within a UK-based Primary Care
Organisation (PCO), it is unavailable to those outside the
UK.
Users can, however, export the
contents of their portfolio at any time into a folder which
presents a summary PDF document plus any other documents that have
been uploaded. This may be helpful for discussions that they have
with colleagues about learning, reflections and
development.
If international and overseas
users want to collect supporting information on an annual basis,
they can manually 'close' their appraisal using a new feature on
the tool. This results in supporting information being archived as
a PDF summary document in Area 4 (Previous Appraisal
Documentation). When information is archived in this way, the user
can begin to collect information for a new 'appraisal'
year.
You can read more about the
Revalidation ePortfolio - including helpful guides and videos - on
the website – click on https://gpeportfolio.rcgp.org.uk/Login.aspx.