About DocFolio
Hi! I'm Cameron, an FY2 doctor working in Bournemouth.
Like a lot of you, I've spent hours trying to make sense of specialty training applications while competition ratios and cut-off scores creep higher every year. It's never too early to start thinking about your portfolio and self-assessment.
When I started looking properly into IMT and CST, I ran into these problems:
- •The portfolio criteria keep changing.
- •Guidance is buried across person specs, PDFs, websites and random threads.
- •There was no simple way to see, right now, what my self-assessment score looked like, what evidence I already had, and what gaps I needed to work on.
All this on top of full-time ward work, nights, exams, and trying to have a life. I found I was spending more time figuring out what to do than actually doing the projects, audits and teaching that I needed to.
That's why I created DocFolio.
What is DocFolio?
DocFolio is a portfolio companion built by a junior doctor, for junior doctors. It's a single site where you can:
- •Upload and organise your portfolio evidence as you go.
- •Map it to the self-assessment domains for IMT, CST, Radiology, Ophthalmology, Paediatrics or Histopathology.
- •See an up-to-date estimated score without manually redoing spreadsheets every time something changes.
- •Practise interview questions against a timer, with mark schemes and model answers for your specialty.
- •Keep an eye on key deadlines and milestones in the application timeline, so nothing important quietly slips past in the middle of a busy rota.
DocFolio won't magically get anyone a training number, and it's not an official deanery tool. What it can do is make everything a bit clearer and more manageable, so that when applications open, you already know where you stand and what you need.
Your files sit in private storage, and each account can only open its own records. I hope DocFolio makes the whole process feel a little less chaotic. If you have feedback or ideas for the site, I'd love to hear them.
Email me at [email protected] — feel free to reach out between ward rounds, on-calls, or whenever you finally get five minutes with a coffee.