Presenting procedure and POCUS evidence at ARCP.

What the panel actually receives

The requirement guides list the evidence for each stage as a table, and every row is a report or a declaration rather than a raw record. For higher training the rows are the Educational Supervisor Report, multisource feedback, the Clinical Supervisor Report, extended supervised learning episodes, the clinical SLOs, practical procedures under SLO6, the generic SLOs, and the Form R or SOAR declaration.

Procedure and point-of-care ultrasound evidence enters through one of those rows. Against practical procedures the higher guide gives the evidence required as a “Faculty Educational Governance (FEG) statement; overall ESR”, directing the reader to the SLO6 practical procedure checklist.

The consequence is worth stating directly: a logbook is not presented at ARCP. It is presented to the educational supervisor, in time for the report that is.

The reports that carry it, and their timing

The higher guide specifies one Educational Supervisor Report per year, “to cover the training year since last ARCP”. Multisource feedback is a “Minimum one MSF for the year, undertaken in first six months, with satisfactory number/range of respondents”. That six-month window is the deadline most easily missed, because it falls long before the ARCP itself.

A Clinical Supervisor Report is required in higher training for “any placement(s) not with Educational Supervisor”. In intermediate training the intermediate guide asks for one “for both PEM and Adult placement” on the same condition.

Extended supervised learning episodes differ between the two stages as well. Higher training asks for a “Minimum three for the year including PEM-focussed ESLE(s)”. Intermediate training asks for a “Minimum three for the year with at least one in each placement and including PEM-focussed ESLE(s)”.

Where curriculum progress is read

Both guides annotate the specialty learning outcome table with the same note: curriculum progress “can be reviewed using the ‘Goals’ e-portfolio dropdown”. That view is where a supervisor or panel member is most likely to look first, and it reflects what has been recorded in the ePortfolio rather than what sits in a separate logbook.

Anything held only in a logbook therefore has to be carried across deliberately. It will not appear there on its own.

What to hand the supervisor

The useful artefact is not a chronological list of every case. It is a summary that lets a supervisor form the judgement the guides ask of them, which means it should be organised by procedure rather than by date, show the supervision recorded for each, and make the change over the year visible.

Bringing it to the supervisor meeting, rather than sending it afterwards, is the practical point. The report is written from that conversation.

Deanery paperwork varies

The RCEM requirement guides set the specialty standard. The ARCP itself is convened locally, and deaneries issue their own checklists and forms, which present the same requirements in different orders and sometimes ask for evidence to be laid out in a particular way.

Where the local form and the college guide appear to disagree, the local form is what the panel will be working from on the day, and the discrepancy is worth raising with the training programme director in advance rather than at the meeting.

Sources

• RCEM Training Standards, the page that carries the current requirement guides.
• ACCS ARCP Requirement Guide 2025-26, v1.1.
• Intermediate Training ARCP Requirement Guide 2025-26.
• Higher Training ARCP Requirement Guide 2025.

Quotations are reproduced for reference with attribution. Requirements change, and the requirement guides are reissued for each training year: check the current documents on the RCEM website before relying on anything here. LogEM is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.