Reflective Template:  Working with Colleagues – WORK SHADOWING
Informal Evidence for Discussion

This reflective template has been designed to use with the SOAR Database (Scottish Online Appraisal Resource).  When you have completed this reflection, please upload it to SOAR / Form 3 and submit it to your interview to share with your Appraiser.	3-step guide to completing this form:

1)	Save this form (using “Save As”) to your computer (e.g. My Documents, Desk top), and customise the file name (e.g. Working with Colleagues 2012)
2)	Proceed to filling out the form - when finished, Save and Close the document.
3)	Login to SOAR and Upload this file from where you had saved it (from step 1), either to the Documents Library, or directly to Form 3.	

This reflection template form should be used for Domain 3: Communication, Partnership and Teamwork.

Inter-professional work shadowing is increasingly being recognised as an excellent opportunity to improve working across the interfaces of care by improving relationships, communication and understanding of each other’s roles and processes. This template is designed to support the reflective learning associated with planning and writing up this quality improvement activity

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3.1)	Which educational needs prompted you to undertake work shadowing?
Examples: improving awareness of local referral pathways and alternatives to referral; improving confidence in clinical management of certain conditions; improving awareness of how to ensure a safe and streamlined discharge from hospital; improved understanding of the patient “journey” across the interfaces of care and the areas of high risk; improving understanding of challenges faced by colleagues in other parts of the system and how we can communicate and work together better etc

3.2)	How did you arrange the work shadowing?
Example: Formal process available in your health board area to facilitate work shadowing? Informal clinician-to-clinician arrangement?

3.3)	What did the work shadowing involve?
Description of process

3.4)	What were the main learning points for you?

	

3.5)	Has it changed your practice in any way? (please give examples)

	

3.6)	Do you think it would be useful to share your learning more widely, and with whom?
Example: GPs - with practice team, with PBSGL group, with cluster group?
Speciality doctors – with your departmental colleagues, with clinical director?

3.7)	Have you suggested any wider improvements to improve primary-secondary care interface working following your work shadowing experience, and to whom?

	

3.8)	How many credits are you claiming for your work shadowing activity (either as the visiting clinician, hosting clinician, or both? (one hour = one learning credit)