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1. Ensuring safe and effective patient care

This area is about how you will protect patients and enhance their care through your supervision of doctors in training and how you balance the needs of your patients and service with the educational needs of your trainees.

The effective supervisor	The excellent supervisor also
Balances the needs of service delivery with education Acts to ensure the health, wellbeing and safety of patients at all times Ensures that trainees have undertaken appropriate induction Allows trainees, when suitably competent, to take responsibility for care, appropriate to the needs of the patient Ensures the trainees understand the importance of providing culturally competent care	Uses educational interventions to enhance patient care Involves trainees in service improvement Involves patients as educators

Examples of relevant evidence
Courses attended or programmes undertaken, including face to face and online learning PMETB survey results Feedback from patients about care received Details of measures put in place to ensure supervision appropriate to trainee's competence and confidence Trainee audits, examples of topics critically appraised by trainees Examples of near miss/critical incident analysis