Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Responding to written reflections in the education of health professionals

This workshop concerns a curricular activity aimed at nurturing reflective practice in future health professionals – the provision of bespoke written responses by faculty (not marks and grades) to pieces of reflective or narrative writing by medical students following clinical placements. Participants will draft their own responses to one of a number of such pieces. They will consider the educational value of the activity – the potential to better understand encourage guide and support students as they confront the realities of practice – and also whether variants of this time-consuming pursuit might suit their own programmes.