Preparation for Professional Practice

Electives Assessment
Instructions to students
Before your return from your elective you will be informed of the date, time and location for your appraisal of
your portfolio, which will start with feedback on your report of My Memorable Elective Experience (MMEE).

If you are taking the resit final exams, and have been done a shortened elective placement (or been given
leave to stay in Leicester), you may submit an alternative report entitled How I Prepared for Resit Finals. This
report should be one side of A4 and can be structured around the action plan that you have already
prepared.


Procedure

1. Visit the Senior Blocks/Electives/Electives Assessment Folder in Blackboard and follow the
instructions on how to upload your two documents.
2. Upload your My Memorable Elective Experience report (or How I Prepared for Resit Finals report) by
Monday 26 May. If you are unable to meet the deadline for submitting your MME report contact
Helen Pascoe hlp2@le.ac.uk as soon as possible.
3. Upload a scanned copy of your Elective Supervisor Assessment Form by Friday 30 May. If you cannot
do this for any reason please contact Nichola Smith ( ns55@le.ac.uk )
4. If possible, during your elective contact the other students in your group for the global health
presentation topic to exchange information and thoughts about how your own experience may shape
the presentation you will be making.
Guidance for the assessment of student elective reports

On completing of their elective students are required to prepare a report describing their memorable
elective experience. To honour the spirit of the elective, which is to allow students to choose the learning
they undertake, we have stated the report can be made in any format they choose. These are some
suggestions they have been given:
Patient case report
Formal report
Reflective or creative writing
Photo essay
Video
PowerPoint slides and notes
Poster
Blog post

The report must be submitted for assessment using Blackboard and it should be possible to read or view it in
10 minutes. It will be assessed by the member of staff who will be undertaking an appraisal of their
portfolio. The reports will be distributed in advance of the appraisal session and you will receive as much
notice as feasible. For the first students being appraised this will be necessarily short as the timings of the
elective and the four-week Preparation for Professional Practice do not allow a more generous deadline.
Students who have to re-sit the Finals Professional Examination have been given leave to cancel their
elective if they wish to use this time to prepare for the re-sit exam. Not all choose to do so and some do
undertake their planned elective. Those who have chosen to remain in Leicester to revise will submit a
report on How I have prepared for FPE re-sits.
The report will be graded by the assessor as excellent, satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Each student will
receive feedback on this report from the assessor at the start of their portfolio appraisal.
My memorable elective experience - Assessor grading and feedback form

Student Name: Number:

Assessor:

Nature of report:


Patient case report
Formal report
Reflective or creative writing

Photo essay
PowerPoint slides and notes
Video

Poster
Blog post
Other


Criteria
Strongly
agree

Agree
Tend to
agree
Tend to
disagree

Disagree
Strongly
disagree
The report demonstrates excellent preparation for
the elective to ensure achievement of aims.

The report confirms effective engagement with the
elective.

The report provides evidence the student is ready for
independent professional practice.

There is depth in the reflection on the elective
experience.

The intrinsic quality of the report is of a high
standard

The length of the report matched the guidance
provided.


Commendable strengths of the report

Suggestions for improvement


Overall grade for the report: Excellent Satisfactory Unsatisfactory