Reflective Template:  Working with Your Colleagues
Informal Evidence for Discussion

This reflective template has been designed to use with the SOAR Database (Scottish Online Appraisal Resource).  When you have completed this reflection, please upload it to SOAR / Form 3 and submit it to your interview to share with your Appraiser.	3-step guide to completing this form:

1)	Save this form (using “Save As”) to your computer (e.g. My Documents, Desk top), and customise the file name (e.g. Working with Colleagues 2012)
2)	Proceed to filling out the form - when finished, Save and Close the document.
3)	Login to SOAR and Upload this file from where you had saved it (from step 1), either to the Documents Library, or directly to Form 3.	

This reflection template form should be used for Domain 3: Communication, Partnership and Teamwork.

If you have done a MSF, this section is strictly optional.
If you have completed this last year, please skip ahead to question 3.6.

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3.1)	What are the arrangements for meeting with your medical colleagues?

3.2)	What are the arrangements for meeting with your practice staff?

3.3)	What are the arrangements for meeting with community staff?

3.4)	What are the arrangements for communications with the other community services?

3.5)	Can you describe any regular or planned contact with colleagues in secondary care?
	
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3.6)	Have there been any new developments or problems since last year?

3.7)	If you are a sessional doctor or do not have a practice base, can you describe how you handle communications with colleagues at the places where you work? (GPs, practice and district nurses, clerical staff, health visitors, CMHT, midwives etc)

3.8)	If you do not work in a practice or another regular workplace, can you describe how you try to ensure that you do not become professionally isolated?

3.9)	Do you have any supporting evidence that you would like to share e.g. minutes from business or clinical meetings, Child Protection or Palliative Care meetings? (Please describe)

3.10)	Can you describe an episode where effective teamwork made a positive contribution to patient care?