Beyond the Tick Box: Feedback That Actually Works

If you are an educational supervisor, the portfolio side of your role takes more time than anyone told you. WPBAs completed, ES reports written, evidence that stacks up without quite telling you how a resident is really doing.

The paperwork is real. So is the opportunity buried inside it. Not more work, better work from the tools already in front of you.

• Move beyond compliance and use WPBAs as a starting point for conversations that change what a resident does next.
• Write ES reports that capture progress, rather than evidence that a list of tasks was completed on time.
• Turn portfolio interactions from an administrative burden into something educationally useful for you and for your resident.
• Bring structure and purpose back to CbDs, ACATs and the other everyday supervisor tasks that have become box ticking.
• Give feedback in the moment that a resident can act on, rather than saving it for the end of placement report.