Electronic Learning Portolios

Student portfolios are a highly valuable teaching, learning and assessment tool. Members of the IME team have been working collaboratively with UW School of Education Faculty members Steve Head and Dr. Hardin Coleman to create a learning portfolio system for the UWSMPH.

The integration of electronic learning portfolios into the medical school learning experience is designed to provide a structure for both the medical school and its students to document and facilitate achievement and growth in the designated competency areas as well as assist with career and professional development goals. The e-portfolio is intended to be a learning tool to engage medical students in self-reflection about their experiences, support and record their growth in knowledge, skills and abilities, and encourage feedback and discussion among and between students and faculty. It can also serve as an administrative tool to manage and organize work for evaluation and assessment purposes both at the program and student level.

Additional Links and Readings:

• Evaluating competence using a portfolio: a literature review and web-based application to the ACGME competencies.
  Carraccio C, Englander R.Teach Learn Med. 2004 Fall;16(4):381-7.
• Portfolio Assessment of Multicultural Counseling Competency.
  Hardin L. K. Coleman. The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 24, No. 2, 216-229 (1996).
• Conditions for successful reflective use of portfolios in undergraduate medical education.
  Med Educ. 2005 Dec;39(12):1230-5.
  Driessen EW, van Tartwijk J, Overeem K, Vermunt JD, van der Vleuten CP.
• Learning while evaluating: the use of an electronic evaluation portfolio in a geriatric medicine clerkship.
  BMC Med Educ. 2006 Jan 12;6:4.
  Duque G, Finkelstein A, Roberts A, Tabatabai D, Gold SL, Winer LR; Members of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University.
• An Overview of E-Portfolios.
  George Lorenzo, John Ittelson. ELI Paper 1:2005, July 2005.

Contact Information:

Amy Becker, MA
aebecker@wisc.edu

Ann Ruscher, MD
aruscher@wisc.edu