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R5 - Student Portfolios in Assessment

Dr. Alan Hull, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

Competency-based assessment is firmly entrenched in US Graduate Medical Education and is becoming more common in undergraduate medical education internationally.  Portfolios provide a structured format for students and trainees to organize evidence that documents that they have mastered required standards and competencies of their program.  Portfolios range from organized collections of performance data to comprehensive self-assessments of competency attainment and plans for improvement.  Portfolios can be paper-based, computer-based, or some combination of these.  This resource session will ask participants to share their experiences with portfolios.  What purposes they serve?  What approaches work?  Who organizes and uses the portfolios?  What are the critical elements of a successful portfolio system?

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