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Reflection for Fitness to Practise

Course Description

Reflection for Fitness to Practise is a course for all healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, dentists, and allied health practitioners, especially those facing fitness to practice investigations, who want to strengthen their reflective skills for professional development, remediation, and regulatory processes.

The course explores what meaningful reflection looks like in practice, why provincial Colleges and national regulators value it, and how it can be used to demonstrate accountability, learning, and safe future practice. Learners will gain practical tools to apply reflective models (Gibbs, Rolfe, Johns), write regulator-ready reflective statements, and avoid common pitfalls such as minimisation, defensiveness, or vague responses.

Through case studies, structured exercises, and regulator-aligned guidance, professionals will learn to turn difficult experiences — complaints, incidents, or investigations — into credible evidence of growth and remediation.

Course Content

Course Objectives
Course Objectives
Section 1: Introduction to Reflection in Healthcare Practice
1.1 What Reflection Really Is (and Isn’t)
1.2 The Purposes of Reflection in Healthcare
1.3 Hallmarks of High-Quality Reflection
1.4 Common Pitfalls in Reflection
1.5 Making Reflection Sustainable in Daily Practice
1.6 From Reflection to Evidenced Change
1.7 Reflective Quiz
Section 2: Why Reflection Matters in Fitness to Practise
2.1 Reflection as a Core Element of Professionalism
2.2 Protecting Patient Safety and Public Trust
2.3 Reflection in Regulatory Expectations
2.4 Consequences of Failing to Reflect
2.5 Reflection as a Bridge to Insight and Remediation
2.6 Reflective Quiz
Section 3: Levels of Reflection — From Description to Critical Analysis
3.1 Descriptive Reflection — “What happened”
3.2 Superficial Reflection — “That wasn’t ideal”
3.3 Analytical Reflection — “Why did it happen?”
3.6 The Reflection Spectrum in Fitness to Practise
3.7 Reflective Quiz
Section 4: Reflective Models for Healthcare Professionals
4.1 Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle
4.2 Rolfe’s Model of Reflection (What? So What? Now What?)
4.3 Johns’ Model of Structured Reflection
4.4 Choosing the Right Model
4.5 Reflection Models in Regulatory Context
4.6 Reflective Quiz
Section 5: Writing Reflective Statements for Regulators and Employers
5.1 What Regulators Expect in Reflective Statements
5.2 Common Weaknesses in Reflective Statements
5.3 Characteristics of Strong Reflective Statements
5.4 Structuring Reflective Statements
5.5 Using Evidence to Strengthen Statements
5.6 Tone and Style in Reflective Writing
5.7 Reflective Quiz
Section 6: Case Studies — Effective and Ineffective Reflection
6.1 Case Study: Documentation Errors (Nurse)
6.2 Case Study: Communication Complaints (Physician)
6.3 Case Study: Prescribing Error (Pharmacist)
6.4 Case Study: Professional Boundaries (Dentist)
6.5 Case Study: Dishonesty in Records (Healthcare Assistant)
6.6 Lessons from the Case Studies
6.7 Reflective Quiz
Section 7: Reflection, Insight, and Remediation as a Continuous Cycle
7.1 Reflection as the Foundation
7.2 Insight as the Outcome of Reflection
7.3 Remediation: Turning Insight into Action
7.4 The Continuous Nature of the Cycle
7.5 Organisational and Cultural Support
7.6 Why This Cycle Matters in Fitness to Practise
7.7 Reflective Quiz
Section 8: Conclusion and Key Takeaways
Conclusion and Key Takeaways
Post-Course Assessment
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