As I reach the end of my neuro placement, I wanted a summary of the biggest things I learned throughout these four weeks and highlight the feedback that came out of my final assessment. I’ve had a wonderful supervisor here, because she had this knack of getting you to reflect on your own performance. At our mid placement assessment, she got us to fill out our own blue form, and then she would go through it with us and discuss with us whether she agreed or not. Has anyone been asked to do this? I’d recommend you try it in your last placement, but unfortunately it’s a little too late now. I found it such a great exercise.
So she’d go through the form and discuss the points I made under each section, and made a plan with me for how I could improve them in the next 2 weeks. It’s a good indicator of whether you self-evaluate yourself accurately. Then at the final assessment, she brought out the mid-placement form and would see how we did on improving issues highlighted in week 2. She also asked me to think about how I felt I went, according to feedback I’d gotten on past pracs, and whether I had attempted to address issues highlighted then. I found this self-analysis so useful. In comparison, my current prac mid-placement evaluation involved my treating 1 patient, and my supervisor giving me feedback from that in quite a dictatorial list-type fashion.
My neuro supervisor taught me the importance of self reflective practice, as in a workplace, we are not going to be given a “blue form” every 2-3 weeks, but bosses will still expect to see improvements in our performance. Another positive aspect of this practice was that I found I didn’t kinda… “lump sum” my perceived disappointments as I would in the past. It helped give me structure to analyse those yucky experiences… somehow
Best positive feedback of the year so far: that I seem to really love physio and am really enthusiastic! This supervisor left me with the most positive message of the year: self-reflective practice plus enthusiasm will make great clinicians. Isn’t it great when someone can do something cool for your confidence? *sigh* what a year…
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I definitly agree with you Beni, self-evaluation is so important. I feel like that's something I've learnt and further developed this year. I think that getting us to fill out the blue form at mid-placement is a really good idea.Some of my supervisors have asked me prior to giving me there feedback how I thought I was going which is useful, i think it also helps you to see if your the kind of person who's too hard or not hard enough on yourself. Very valuable skill.
Good work Beni, self reflection is the most important thing. Without knowing the effectiveness of what you do on patient, that will be meaningless. Constant evaluation and modification during treatment benefits both patient and yourself.
Keep it on!!
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