Use of e- Portfolios in health professional education: application and evidence

INTRODUCTION In a digital world, evidence fuels innovation and makes improvement possible. Evidence is what separates real advances from mere novelties, enhanced learning from mere entertainment.6 Education can capitalise on the capacity for new technologies to collect and organise large amounts of data, and, if planned and managed appropriately, it can contribute to the evidence that informs our practice. e-Portfolios, in particular, have considerable potential in providing evidence about our students’ performance outcomes applied to practice.