The need for logbooks to evolve in the undergraduate medical setting

reflective opportunity, which is already difficult to encourage [4]. While logbooks cannot be used as a substitute for appropriate feedback from supervising physicians, when appropriately designed and used, logbooks can be used as a tool by supervisors to provide thoughtful and meaningful feedback to trainees. The design and use of logbooks in the undergraduate medical setting needs to evolve into a tool that highlights the importance of quality rather than quantity of patient interactions, encourages a deeper level of reflection and provides the opportunity to obtain meaningful feedback from clinical supervision. Medicine is a clinical art. Medical students need to appreciate the importance of seeing, experiencing and practising this art in the clinical setting; the logbook should support this concept.