Mapping Activities to Competencies

One of the purposes of recording activities is so that trainees can use them to demonstrate competency against the curriculum they are following.

Each competency in the curriculum describes the knowledge skills and attitudes demonstrated through behaviour.

In order to thoroughly demonstrate competency a trainee should use more than one source of evidence. This is known as triangulation. The key is for trainees to select a few good examples of competency, rather than mapping many different activities that may only be loosely related.

Each trainee's dashboard has a portfolio card; a visualisation that shows a summary of a trainee's portfolio. Viewing the portfolio card, one can quickly see how much of the curriculum has evidence mapped to it. It not only shows how many competencies a trainee has covered, but it also shows how many activities a trainee has mapped.

The example above shows that this trainee has activities mapped against 14 of the 21 available competencies in the Occupational Medicine Curriculum curriculum. So about 66% coverage.

The progress bar then breaks down this 66% further to show how many activities are mapped.

• 1 competency has 3 or more activities mapped to it
• 4 competencies have 2 activities mapped
• 9 of competencies have just one activity mapped
• 7 competencies do not have any activities mapped to them.

The progress bar is also fully interactive. For example, click on the orange section to see exactly which 7 competencies do not have activities mapped to them. This information could be used to help a trainee develop their Personal Development Plan (PDP).

Mapping through a Personal Development Plan (PDP)

It is possible to map activities to the competencies through your PDP items (this is the default view) or directly to the curriculum itself.

 

When a trainee maps activities to competencies they will be shown all current PDP items by default along with those competencies that were selected when linking learning objectives to framework competencies. If this hasn't been done, then the PDP Items will show the message "You should map this PDP item to 1 or more competencies".

 

When mapping an activity through PDP items, the system will record which PDP item it has been mapped through, and will then show this activity against that PDP item, as well as showing it in the wider curriculum coverage view.

Activities can only be mapped to a trainee's current PDP items, not archived ones.

 

Mapping Directly to the Curriculum

If an activity does not correlate to any of a trainee's PDP items, it can be mapped directly to a curriculum competency. To do this, the trainee selects the relevant curriculum and any relevant competency. Mapping this way will ensure the activity is not recorded against any particular PDP Item.

 

As you map an activity to competencies you will see the mapped competencies appear on the screen that corresponds to the toggle. The mapped competencies will also include an indicator that shows if the mapping was direct and/or via a PDP Item.

Regardless of how an activity is mapped, it will be shown against the competency or competencies selected when viewing curriculum coverage.

 

Trainees can follow our step-by-step guide to mapping activities to competencies to ensure their portfolio shows how activities are fulfilling both their personal development plan and the competencies in a curriculum.