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Maintaining performance, learning and teaching 

This competency is about maintaining the performance and effective continuing professional development of oneself and others

Insufficient Evidence

From the available evidence, the doctor’s performance cannot be placed on a higher point of this developmental scale.

Needs Further Development

Accesses the available evidence, including the medical literature, clinical performance standards and guidelines for patient care.

Competent

Judges the weight of evidence, using critical appraisal skills and an understanding of basic statistical terms, to inform decision-making.

Excellent

Uses professional judgement to decide when to initiate and develop protocols and when to challenge their use.

Moves beyond the use of existing evidence toward initiating and collaborating in research that addresses unanswered questions.

Routinely engages in study to keep abreast of evolving clinical practice and contemporary medical issues.

Shows a commitment to professional development through reflection on performance and the identification of and attention to learning needs.

Evaluates the process of learning so as to make future learning cycles more effective.

Systematically evaluates performance against external standards, using this information to inform peer discussion.

Demonstrates how elements of personal development are related to the needs of the organisation.

Uses the mechanism of professional development to aid career planning.

Changes behaviour appropriately in response to the clinical governance activities of the practice, in particular to the agreed outcomes of audit and significant event analysis.

Recognises situations, e.g. through risk assessment, where patient safety could be compromised.

Participates in audit where appropriate and uses audit activity to evaluate and suggest improvements in personal and practice performance.

Engages in significant event reviews and learns from them as a team-based exercise.

By involving the team and the locality, encourages and facilitates wider participation and application of clinical governance activities.

Contributes to the education of students and colleagues.

Identifies learning objectives and uses teaching methods appropriate to these.

Assists in making assessments of learners.

Evaluates outcomes of teaching, seeking feedback on performance.

Uses formative assessment and constructs educational plans.

Ensures students and junior colleagues are appropriately supervised.