Reflection, Insight and Core Skills

What are the 4 domains of the good medical practice?

• Knowledge, skills and development

• Patients, partnership and communication

• Colleagues, culture and safety

• Trust and professionalism

Give 2 requirements in Knowledge, skills and development

1. Being competent

2. Maintaining, developing and improving your performance

   • Keeping knowledge and skills up to date

   • Take steps to monitor, maintain, develop, and improve your performance and the quality of your work

Give 2 requirements in Patients, partnership and communication

• Respect every patient’s dignity and right to privacy

• You must treat patients fairly → don’t discriminate against them

Give 4 requirements in Colleagues, culture and safety

• Treat colleagues with kindness, courtesy and respect

• Teamwork

• Leadership behaviours

• Speaking out against unsafe practice

Give 2 requirements in Trust and professionalism

• Duty of candour (Being open and honest with patient)

• Maintaining professional boundaries

Define emotional intelligence

The ability to recognise, understand and manage your own emotions, as well as others

What are the 6 stages of Gibb’s Reflective Cycle?

1. Description (What happened?)

2. Feelings (How did it make you feel?

3. Evaluation (What was good or bad?)

4. Analysis (Why did things happen that way?)

5. Conclusion (What have you learned?)

6. Action Plan (What will you do next time?)