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What are the opportunities to get involved in Portfolio?

As a Portfolio Coach, you will play a vital role in supporting medical students over 4 years as they explore a variety of content areas (Professionalism, Communication, Diversity and Equity and Transition to Clinical Learning).

Portfolio explicitly considers students’ developing identities as physicians, as they learn to think and be like physicians and explore socialization and hidden curriculum, grounded in clinical experiences.

Students attend Portfolio sessions in person subject to university and public health regulations. Videoconference is available for students not geographically co-located (i.e., due to rural family practice clerkship or integrated community clerkship).

How is Portfolio run?

A Portfolio group (9 students) meets with 1 portfolio coach; ideally from Year 1 through Year 4 to provide continuity. Each year, the coach meets with their students 2-4 times in person.

The goal of each session is for students to bridge what they’re seeing in practice with what they’re learning from the reflection and discussion that is explored in Portfolio.

In addition, students are asked to submit written assignments and coaches are responsible for reading and providing feedback on these reflections.

What is the frequency of Portfolio sessions?

Portfolio coaches engage in the following sessions along with additional faculty development sessions each year.

Year 1

4 sessions

  • Term 1 (2 sessions)
  • Term 2 (2 sessions)

Year 2

3 sessions

  • Term 1 (1 session)
  • Term 2 (2 sessions)

Year 3

4 sessions

  • Term 1 (2 sessions)
  • Term 2 (2 sessions)

Year 4

2 sessions

  • Term 2 ( 2 sessions)

FAQ

What are the benefits of becoming a Portfolio coach?

  • Play a key role in supporting students’ in constructing knowledge from their experiential learning
  • Professional development opportunities to support your role as a coach
  • Compensation for your time
  • Opportunity to be reflective about your own clinic practice and experiences

What are the requirements to become a Portfolio coach?

  • Hold an MD qualification (resident, practicing, or retired) or graduate qualification in a relevant field such as education or a health professional program
  • Hold (or is eligible for) a faculty appointment with the Faculty of Medicine at UBC
  • Experience in facilitating small group meetings with medical students
  • Experience in coaching and/or facilitation and/or mentoring
  • Foster inclusivity and the values of respect, integrity, compassion, collaboration, and equity
  • Remain in good standing with your associated regulatory body if relevant (e.g., BCCPS) and demonstrate lifelong learning
  • Ideally, able to commit to a group for longer than one year

What are the general responsibilities of a Portfolio Coach?

  • Facilitate small group sessions with medical students to coach performance improvement, provide structured feedback (including written), and encourage active participation through discussions and collaborative learning
  • Prompt students to critically evaluate their interpretations, broaden perspectives, and develop integrated competencies by connecting concepts like patient-centeredness, hidden curriculum, and identity formation
  • Stimulate metacognitive abilities to foster self-regulated learning, both individually and as a group
  • Act as a role model for personal and professional development by practicing self-regulation, inquiry, and reflection to integrate learning
  • Collaborate with other Portfolio coaches in faculty development and collective problem-solving to enhance the learning process, and report on student participation to ensure completion of mandatory activities and deliverables

What does compensation look like?

Coaches with a UBC Faculty of Medicine appointment will be paid quarterly according to schedules determined in the UBC Faculty of Medicine Clinical Faculty Compensation Terms for Teaching in the MD Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs. No tracking of hours will be required.

Faculty already compensated through other means (e.g., grant-funded tenure – GFTs) are not eligible for payment..

Who are my Portfolio contacts?