Guide overview
This article will explain how to complete a Phase I clinical skills or clinical placement reflection form in OpenCampus, as well as access feedback.
Clinical Skills Reflections
Each week for clinical skills you are required to complete and submit a weekly reflection. These reflections are then reviewed by your clinical skills tutor. They will provide you with constructive feedback on your performance that week.
The clinical skills weekly record forms will be available in your portfolio at the start of each teaching week (Thursday for Year 1 students and Friday for Year 2 students). You will have 1 week (from the deployment date) to complete your weekly clinical skills reflection.
Your weekly clinical skills form will be closed after the deadline. Failure to complete a form will result in it being marked as non-complete in your portfolio.
Clinical Placement Reflections
Your clinical placement tutor will inform you when to complete a clinical placement reflection form. These reflections will be reviewed by your clinical placement tutor. They will provide you with constructive feedback on your performance in clinical practice.
All clinical placement reflection forms will be closed 7 days after the end of the block. Failure to complete a form will result in it being marked as non-complete in your portfolio.
Completing a clinical skills or clinical placement reflection form
Follow the instructions below on how to complete a weekly clinical skills reflection form and a clinical placement reflection form.
To complete a weekly record form, follow these simple steps:
To access OpenCampus in your browser navigate to the following link; https://opencampus.hyms.ac.uk.- Log in with your HYMS username (in the format hyxxxx@hyms.ac.uk) and password. Please see further guidance if required at the following link; how to access OpenCampus.
- From the OpenCampus menu select Portfolio. This will take you to your portfolio page where you will see three tabs; clinical skills (CS), clinical placement (CP) and absence requests.
- Under the CS tab, you will see the block of study for your current academic year. So, for example, if you’re currently in Year 2 you will see Disease Processes, Kidney Function and Failure etc,.
- Select the current block of study. Here you will see the weekly clinical skills forms for that block. Click edit to open the form.
- Now, select whether or not you attended this session. If you did not attend the session, you are not required to provide a reflection. However, you still need to submit the form. If you did attend the session a text box will appear for you to write your reflection. If there was no session that week, select no session from the drop-down menu.
Your reflection should include:
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- what you have done
- what you have learnt
- what you need to learn
Below is an example reflection.
What you have done
Our tutor went over the Calgary-Cambridge framework with us and we learnt the difference between open and closed questions. We also learnt that when we give feedback we need to describe it well in specific terms. This is so that the person doing the interview can learn from it.
We then took it in turns to talk to the simulated patient and gave feedback to the interviewing student.
What you have learnt
I learnt how to use open and closed questions and also to try to structure the consultation using the C-C framework. It was good to talk to the simulated patient and start practising before we saw real patients, as we could keep on going over various points with different students and in different ways.
I was nervous before I went into the room with the SP and then I was anxious about what the other students would say. My feedback from them did cover some points I did well, such as my introduction, but I also learnt that I fidgeted a lot and used my hands a lot when talking. Also trying to think of the C-C structure and what to ask the SP, as well as listening to their answers, was quite difficult.
What you need to learn
I will try and get a structure in my mind of questions to ask so that I can listen to what the patient says and also respond to their questions. I will practise talking to a real patient on placement next week. It will be good to try and use what we have learnt today.
- Once you have completed your weekly reflection, select the tutor who facilitated your clinical skills session. By default, this should display your assigned clinical skills tutor. However, you can change this if you had a substitute tutor for your skills session
Make sure you select the correct tutor before submitting. You will not be able to edit the tutor field after submitting the form. If the tutor name does not appear at first, check the spelling is correct and type slowly.
- You have the option to save or submit your weekly clinical skills form. If you save your reflection (this might be useful if you have two clinical skills sessions in a week) you will be able to edit / add to the content prior to submission. A saved form will have the status of form in progress on your actions required page. Once submitted, the form will be sent to your tutor who will provide you with feedback. You will no longer be able to edit your reflection.
After submission, the form will now be marked within your portfolio as action required by tutor. The tutor should provide you with a grade and feedback. Once your tutor has provided you with feedback this form will be marked as complete.
To complete a clinical placement reflection form, follow these simple steps:
- To access OpenCampus in your browser navigate to the following link; https://opencampus.hyms.ac.uk.
- Log in with your HYMS username (in the format hyxxxx@hyms.ac.uk) and password. Please see further guidance if required at the following link; how to access OpenCampus.
- From the OpenCampus menu select Portfolio. This will take you to your portfolio page where you will see three tabs; clinical skills (CS), clinical placement (CP) and absence requests.
- Under the CP tab, you will see the block of study for your current academic year. So, for example, if you’re currently in Year 1 you will see Foundation of Medicine, Healthy Heart and Lungs, You Are What You Eat etc.
- Select the current block of study. Here you will see your clinical placement forms for this block. To start a new clinical placement form, click the Add new CP reflection form button. This will open a new clinical placement reflection form.
You will only be able to add new CP reflection forms for the current block.
- Start by selecting the Clinical Placement Setting. This will either be Primary care or Secondary care. Now, select whether or not you attended this session.
- Once you have completed your reflection, select the tutor who asked you to complete the reflection form.
- You have the option to save or submit the clinical placement form. A saved form will have the status of form in progress in your portfolio. Once submitted, the form will be sent to your tutor who will provide you with feedback. You will no longer be able to edit your reflection.
Accessing feedback from your tutor
Follow these instructions on how to access feedback from your tutor.
- From the OpenCampus menu select Portfolio. This will take you to your portfolio page where you will see three tabs; clinical skills (CS), clinical placement (CP) and absence requests.
- Select either clinical placement or clinical skills and the relevant block. Under the block heading you will see the reflection forms.
- For completed forms (forms that are marked with a tick), select View to access your feedback. This will display the completed form with your reflection and the grade and feedback you received from your tutor.