Health care professionals are expected to undertake a large amount of clinical placement training to support their learning (Hyde, 2015)⁠. For some years our university has offered higher education in health care field, namely in the radiography degree. We have organized clinical internships in several health institutions, some of them geographic distant from our campus. Since the beginning, there has been concern in the development of an effective trainees evaluation system, for this, we are continuously developing the criteria and the information collection tool, with...

To evaluate the trainees, we started by asking for a subjective evaluation of supervisors, then in 2007/2008 we created a objetive paper-based form with 87 criteria evaluated on a scale of 6 categories ("Poor", "Adequate", " Adequate +", "Good "" Very Good "," Excellent ") and divided into 13 domains. The tool was heavily criticized for being difficult to fill out and too exhaustive. In the 2011/2012 school year, the paper form was re-created to contain 34 criteria evaluated on a scale of 4 categories...

The trial version is functional and answering the initial needs requested by the hospital supervisors. Administrators have access to all the site (Fig. 1), and external supervisor only have access to authorized pages (Fig. 2). Assements forms could be directly fill on the site (Fig. 3), and the grade could be viewed right after (Fig. 4). Trainees monitoring and assessment is simplified, reducing the number of dislocations, between hospitals and the university of forms, supervisors and trainees.

We are expecting greater acceptance, that allows us to collect the assessments more quickly and provide a grade of the trainees. This tool provides clearly written up-to-date learning outcomes/objectives (the learning outcomes are reviewed and assessed) appropriate to the practice placement environment.

Luís Ribeiro (PhD), Professor in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department, Health School - University of Algarve, Portugal. Researcher in CIDAF – University of Coimbra (Centro de Investigação do Desporto e da Atividade Física) and Member of Studies Center in Healthcare (CES-ESSUALG). Email: [email protected] António Abrantes (PhD), Professor in the Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy Department, Health School - University of Algarve, Portugal. Researcher in CICS.NOVA (Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities) and Member of Studies Center in Healthcare (CES-ESSUALG). E-mail:...

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