Personal and Professional Development

Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Personal and Professional Development

Full course description

In the professional and personal development track: you will (year 1 phase) 

  1. Critically reflects => reconcile and integrates on personal values and priorities and develops personal strategies to promote personal growth and lifelong learning
  2. Interprets and analyses personal performance using feedback from others and makes judgments about the need to change.
  3. Knows how to deal with feedback adequately and is able to recognise, give, receive and ask for feedback in a safe and well-known learning environment.
  4. Systematically describes in a portfolio his/her own strengths and weaknesses with regard to the CanMED competencies, reflects on these aspects and formulates learning goals and a learning plan accordingly.
  5. Makes feasible plans for his/her study activities, while maintaining a healthy balance in study-work-private activities.
  6. Makes conscious choices for the personal programme (electives and student clinics).
  7. Demonstrates ability to build team capacity and positive working relationships and undertake various team roles including leadership and the ability to accept leadership by others.

All teaching and learning is integrated in the APT and periods

Course objectives

Knowledge

  • Has insight into his/her own learning style.
  • Can explain the structure of the bachelor curriculum 
  • Understands the basic principles of feedback according to the guidelines
  • Understand the competency-based approach in the 2020 Medical training framework
  • Understands the need to collect feedback and uses this information for writing an underpinning of the performance objectives, what went well and what should be improved and why

Skills

  • Has applied giving, receiving, asking for feedback according to the feedback rules
  • Is able to formulate, monitor and follow-up on meaningful/ fit-for purpose, just in time learning goals based on feedback and information received
  • Can make a well-founded choice for the implementation of the personal programme
  • Recognises primary team roles and his/her own preferred role

Attitude

  • Is aware of the qualities he/she needs to possess to become a good doctor
  • Can motivate him/herself from an intrinsic perspective, with a decreasing focus on personal achievement/performance
  • Can recognise his/her own emotions and analyse and reflect on the resulting behaviour (4G's)
  • Can identify which factors have a positive influence on functioning and maintaining personal balance, and which do not
  • Can ask for help in time and go to peers for help and support
  • Can take an honest and vulnerable position for reflection and learning purposes
  • Handles social media in a professional way
  • Is aware of and can operationalize the drawn-up Integrity Statement
  • Can use, value and cope with different test/feedback systems as used in the new curriculum
  • Demonstrates compassion, honesty and ethical practices with regard to patients/ peers/ teachers in different settings
  • Meets professional obligations in a reliable and timely manner, taking the local context into account
  • Demonstrates knowledge of outcomes of unprofessional behaviour including effect on self, organisation and patients
  • Demonstrates cultural sensitivity when interacting with patients, families, and co-workers from diverse (ethnic) backgrounds and abilities
MED1105
Year
1 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2025
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ECTS credits: 
0.0
Instruction language: 
English
Coordinators:
Teaching methods: 
Assignment(s), Work in subgroups, PBL, Training(s)
Assessment methods: 
Portfolio