LNAT

Each trainee and his or her educational supervisor will be given access to an on-line learning portal. Among the wide information that this offers, this is a tool to assist the trainee to plan learning and later, to record what has been done.

An electronic learning plan enables a trainee to show evidence of progress and personal development, and to obtain feedback from his or her educational supervisor. A trainee should then be able to manage (plan, monitor and evaluate) his or her own learning process more effectively, and the educational supervisor will have, in one central location, easy access to collated information regarding the trainee's progress. The electronic display will consist of:

• learning objectives arranged into domains and themes;
• the trainee's learning plans;
• appraisals and assessments as learning proceeds in order to assist the trainee and his or her supervisor to check progress and discern gaps;
• progress reports.

The range of prior knowledge that a trainee brings to a training program will differ from each of his or her peers so, for the sake of quantifying learning, the Faculty cannot guide any trainee on a ‘typical' case. Instead, imagine a hypothetical entrant to the AFOEM training program, two years post-graduate, with employment that involves some practice in occupational medicine. He or she will look at the 172 learning objectives in the Curriculum and, in terms of preparing to tackle the task, will probably categorise the learning objectives into "learning already done" - in medical school, intern work and extra-mural activities - and "learning still to do".

• Click to access the Learning Needs Analysis Tool
• Click to access the Learning Needs Analysis Info Sheet
• Click to access the Learning Needs Analysis Flowchart

Trainees will need their RACP/AFOEM login credentials. Likewise, education supervisors will need to use their RACP/AFOEM login credentials in order to use the LNAT.

Page Last Reviewed or Updated: Thursday 19, August 2010