Patient interactions and good competency evidence
Interactions with patients offer trainees the opportunity to demonstrate their competence with subject knowledge and their competence in interpersonal and communication skills.
Last Updated: 14th October 2020
Good competency evidence should show how you undertook and understood the activity.
Interactions with patients offer trainees the opportunity to demonstrate their competence with subject knowledge and their competence in interpersonal and communication skills.
Peers or Training Officers could provide the trainees with feedback on these interactions, which the trainees could use as evidence. In some cases, the trainee might seek feedback from the patient.
According to the NHS Constitution: ‘Patients come first in everything we do. We fully involve patients, staff, families, carers, communities, and professionals inside and outside the NHS.’ This can also be true of healthcare science training even if the trainee’s role or specialty are not directly patient-facing.
According to Manninen et. al. in their paper ‘Patients’ approaches to students’ learning’,
‘It is well known that patients’ involvement in health care students’ learning is essential and gives students opportunities to experience clinical reasoning and practise clinical skills.’