Training planning is driven and informed by the content of the discipline-specific curriculum and its content must meet the Academy’s Standards of Proficiency.
The example training plan template provided is mapped directly to the Standards of Proficiency and can be used to ensure that your training will cover all of these Standards. All the Standards must be achieved, however they can be interpreted in the context of your specialty.
The training plan will produce evidence from work undertaken in the workplace, from the academic content of the HEI programme and from professional qualifications. Each piece of evidence submitted for assessment should formally map to the Standards of Proficiency.
Training planning should grow by design over the period of the programme. It should be more detailed in earlier years, referencing an outline for future years which should be updated and modified in detail year on year.
Effective training planning will establish training goals:
- against the Academy’s Standards of Proficiency
- against the specialist curriculum content
- against what is required for the programme components (DClinSci, FRCPath etc)
- against the required programme outcomes
It will also develop the content by:
- planning progression over the 5 years
- working backwards from where you want to be at the end of the programme
- designing the outputs and evidence
- establishing a timeline for progression
- making time to prepare for training
- having flexibility to allow for change in circumstance
Each training plan is an individual programme particular to the individual trainee and the environment they work in, discussed and agreed with the workplace Supervisor. It needs to take account of the job plan and any assigned roles and routine clinical responsibilities and needs to strike the right balance between the requirements of routine service and of progression through the HSST programme.
A training plan should include:
- objectives set to facilitate personal development and with time set aside for training
- assessments designed and mapped to match progression through the programme against both the LOs of the curriculum and to meet the Academy’s Standards of Proficiency
- provision of supervision and monitoring of a trainee’s educational experience
- regular training planning reviews.
OneFile, the online e-portfolio, provides a means whereby training plans can be recorded and signed off. In addition, OneFile allows training meetings to be logged and actions to be recorded for both Supervisor and HSST records.