Reflective Practice Essay

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Tomorrow’s doctors will face demanding multidimensional health challenges (World Health Report 2007). Doctors are going to need a broad range of essential, core skills to deal and adapt with these concerns. Rational intelligence alone is insufficient to meet these challenges. It has been considered that reflective practice is one tool that can help doctors become experiential, life-long learners, and develop the core skills, attitudes and character traits that will let them flourish in complex medical systems, while maintaining the humanistic side of medicine (Ryan, 2010). The skill of reflective practice included in the core competencies of the doctors in the training and development curriculum (Foundation training curriculum, 2012).
Extent literature on reflective practice of doctors is evident on enhancing professionalism of doctors. Embo, Driessen, Valcke and Vleuten, (2014) argue that the reflective ability of doctors is directly linked with their performance. They maintain, that the use of reflective practice contribute to clinical performance improvement of the doctors. Similarly, it has been noted that continuously reflecting on experience improves patient care (Holmboe, Prince and Green, 2005), help doctors to increase accuracy in diagnosis (Mamede, Schmidt and Rikers, 2007), improve team work (Lown …show more content…

He maintains that only 13% of these mistakes were discussed with clinical supervisor. This indicated that foundation trainee doctors are reluctant to share mistakes where they feel to be judged on, same is the case with e-portfolio. Junior doctors feel sham, embarrass, and fear to be judged as incompetent doctor (Millwood, 2014) while maintaining the e-portfolio, so usually it is strategically written by doctors to portray good skills (Fauchald and Bastian,