Learning happens all year. Your appraisal toolkit should keep up.
Doctors learn constantly.
A conversation with a colleague. A patient who makes you reconsider your approach. A useful email. A course. A presentation. A clinical update. A thought between appointments.
The problem isn't always the learning.
It's capturing it while you're busy doing everything else.
Improval gives you quick, simple ways to record learning when it happens - so it doesn't become another job waiting for you later.
Speak it
Capture a voice note and turn it into a structured learning entry.
Email it
Forward a useful email straight into Improval so you can return to it later.
Write it
Add a quick note while the thought is fresh.
Photograph it
Capture notes or a useful presentation slide from the companion app.
AI THAT SUPPORTS YOUR THINKING
AI should help you reflect. Not do the reflecting for you.
Improval uses AI where it can genuinely make your professional development easier.Use it to:
“When did I last do a diabetes update?”
Or let Improval review your learning and help you consider:
“What could I develop next?”
The AI tools are optional. You remain in control of your entries, and AI doesn't replace your appraiser or supervisor.
It helps with the administration so you can spend more of your appraisal discussing the things that matter.
- Turn voice notes into structured learning entries
- Refine and organise your reflections
- Summarise your learning
- Search your previous learning conversationally
- Suggest areas for future development
- Generate ideas for PDP goals
- Help you review your appraisal content
“When did I last do a diabetes update?”
Or let Improval review your learning and help you consider:
“What could I develop next?”
The AI tools are optional. You remain in control of your entries, and AI doesn't replace your appraiser or supervisor.
It helps with the administration so you can spend more of your appraisal discussing the things that matter.
Years of learning, easily findable in seconds
Your Learning Diary gives you one organised record of your development.Colour-code entries. Create your own tags. Link learning to different professional roles. Access it offline through the app.
And when you need to find something, don't hunt through old entries.
Ask Improval.
SEE YOUR DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME
Your PDP isn't just for this year. Turn annual PDP goals into a bigger picture.
Traditional appraisal systems can make your PDP feel like a collection of annual snapshots.Improval gives you a timeline.
See your goals across the years, add updates as you progress, connect goals to different professional roles and use your previous learning to help decide what you want to develop next.
During appraisal, you and your appraiser can review your existing goals, discuss new ones and agree your next PDP together.
FROM THE CO-FOUNDER OF FOURTEENFISH
Built by someone who understands appraisal and software. And, we were just getting started.
I'm Duncan.I'm a former GP, software developer and co-founder of FourteenFish.
I've spent years thinking about how technology can support doctors' learning and development.
And I've come to believe that the best software shouldn't create another process for you to manage.
It should facilitate the thing you're trying to do so naturally that the technology almost disappears into the background.
That's what I'm building with Improval.
A system that makes it easier to capture learning, easier to prepare for appraisal and easier to use technology - including AI - in ways that genuinely support doctors.
And we're still building.
Improval continues to evolve in response to the doctors and appraisers using it.
Need help? Just ask.
Great software matters.So does what happens when you need help.
Improval is built around responsive, informed support from people who understand the product and the world it is designed for.
Raise your query and we’ll nearly always respond on the same day.
Make your next appraisal easier. Your learning is already happening. Start capturing it.
Explore Improval free for one week and see how much easier it can be to capture your learning, prepare for appraisal and keep your professional development organised. £4.99 / month after your free trial.
