South Black Country VTS – EESI to use online reviews

BCVTS Drs James Bullock, Dominic Faux and Ian Reed are all involved in the training of new doctors through one of the many Vocational Training Schemes (VTS) operating throughout the country. They want to be the best in terms of the training they offer and give the very best to the doctors enrolled on their scheme.  

The training is ‘vocational’ and involves learning and developing on-the-job at participating GP surgeries and hospital departments within the local Trust. To ensure the very best educational experience for their doctors-in-training, they had devised a paper-based review which the doctors-in-training carried out towards the end of their placement. This was then discussed with their tutor and then fed back anonymously to those responsible for training in these establishments at a later date.

Already one step ahead of most other VTS’s in actually monitoring the educational excellence of the placements, our three doctors wanted to move further ahead by exploiting the potential of online questionnaires feeding into a database and then being able to report from that database.

Funds were obtained from Dudley Clinical Education Centre Charity and PSL were asked to look at how an application could be developed within the fixed budget of the agreed funding.

"PSL have had the ideas, the drive and the ability to get this project
started on time and within budget. They do exactly what they say on the
tin." Dr Dominic Faux

 

EESI to use Apprisals made easy with EESI

The result is Educational Excellence Structured Interviews or just plain EESI.

And that’s exactly what it is – EESI to use. Every six months or so, over 50 doctors-in-training access the questionnaire over the internet and complete an assessment of their placement. Each component is scored and comments can be added.

At a later stage, each doctor-in-training gets together with their educational tutor and they review the questionnaire together on-line. Comments can be added or amended and those comments that are deemed significant are marked so that they can be easily fed back to the surgeries or departments.

Questionnaire scores can then be downloaded into Excel and reports easily produced for individual surgeries or hospital departments as well as comparisons between the various surgeries and departments.