What is the Professional Development Portfolio?
The Professional Development Portfolio is designed to help ensure that the learning environment encourages medical students to maintain their core values and further develop the skills needed to face the challenges of the medical profession through regular self-reflection. Highlighting the conflicts between the values of professionalism and the daily pressures of practice and training allows students to recognize, analyze and reflect on these issues. The Portfolio encourages students to take responsibility for “setting and maintaining standards of competence and integrity” in order to ensure the most professional behavior and thus the future of the medical profession.
Related Questions
- Can a content-based college-level course such as statistics be used to meet the professional development and professional reading requirement for the Performance/Portfolio Assessment?
- If a district has developed its own forms to document paraprofessionals’ participation in professional development, can these forms be used for the Performance/Portfolio Assessment?
- Are local professional development activities acceptable for the Performance/Portfolio Assessment?
