Hints and Tips for Compiling Your Portfolio - South West Peninsula ...

• Make navigation simple; include a contents page at the front and ensure that you
have clearly divided the various sections of your portfolio by using dividers that are
wider than your A4 material. Be logical in your layout; consider the impression you
will be giving about the way you potentially think and work.
• CV at the front of the portfolio. You may wish to include both a summarised CV,
which will provide details of your career to date in an easy to read shortened format,
along with your full CV. Remember, your assessors only have a very limited period
of time to look at your portfolio and interview you. By providing a summarised CV
you will be able to quickly tell them about your education, key qualifications, audits,
prizes, research and relevant work experiences. For hints and tips for compiling
CVs http://www.peninsuladeanery.nhs.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=115
D. Content
There are a number of ways to structure your portfolio and two of the commonest are:
• An expanded CV
• Based on GMC’s Good Medical Practice Guide for Doctors
You do not have to follow these structures but be sure that you can meet the criteria laid
down in the guide – visit www.gmcuk.org
An expanded CV layout might include the following sections. If you use this format you
should also use the mapping document (below) so that you can identify which parts of your
portfolio contain evidence to support good medical practice (taken from the GMC domains
for Good Medical Practice.)
• Personal details
• Contents page
• Mapping Document (to GMC Domains of Good Medical Practice)
• CV
• Certificates (Degrees, CRB, Completion of Foundation etc)
• Self appraisal & personal development plan
• Posts held
• Appraisal meetings
• Review forms
• Assessments of competence (If you have large numbers of work based assessment
forms then you can include them but it would be best to put them all together with a list
at the front summarising the assessments & types of cases done)
• Reflective practice
• Teaching (with feedback)
• Presentations (with feedback)
• Audit
• Research & Publications
• IT Skills
• Careers
• Extra-curricula activities
Cate Bennett – September 2008
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