This workshop will be ideal for anyone who has used any profiling or self-awareness tools in their teaching, and would like to share their experiences; and anyone who is involved in developing the self-awareness part of the curriculum, and is thinking of using one of these tools. Self- awareness is a core domain of the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (Spurgeon 2010), and Tomorrow’s Doctor’s 2009(GMC 2009) states that the graduate should be able to recognise their own personal and professional limits and be able to build positive working relationships. There are several different self-assessment, profiling and multi-source feedback tools available, some of which are currently used in undergraduate education. Participants will look at these tools and consider their strengths and weaknesses in relation to relevance, delivery and use in an undergraduate curriculum. Characteristics of an 'ideal’ self-awareness tool or learning resource will be identified, and it is hoped that this workshop will lead to collaboration for developing learning resources in this area.

 

 

Workshop Objectives

This workshop will specifically look at how to teach the competencies related to self-awareness in the Management and Leadership Competency Framework(Spurgeon 2010)

 

Following the workshop participants should be able to:

 

• List the strengths and weaknesses of the self-assessment and multisource feedback tools currently available 
• Identify the learning needs of medical students in the area of self-awareness
• Generate the main characteristics of a tool that is relevant and useful to undergraduate medical students 
• Contribute to the design of a curriculum addressing self-awareness
• Collaborate with others in further research in this area