About Us

Designed and built in The Netherlands

Reconcept EPA Portfolio is based in the university city of Groningen, The Netherlands. Our city houses one of the biggest University Medical Centers in The Netherlands. Furthermore, the University of Groningen has an excellent Department of Computing Science.

The Netherlands also played an important role in the establishment of EPAs as a worldwide best practice. Postgraduate medical education in The Netherlands has been implementing EPA-based learning since 2017. It should come as no surprise that our advanced EPA Portfolio app was conceived in this environment.

Proven in over 80 teaching hospitals

The development of our EPA Portfolio was initiated in 2017 out of a concrete need among Dutch postgraduate medical educators. At that time, several suppliers of portfolio software were available in the Dutch educational landscape, however, the concept of EPAs was new and not adequately supported by any of the traditional suppliers.

Together with the Netherlands Association of Pulmonologists, we set out to develop the first ever EPA-based portfolio. Our innovation quickly caught on and spread to other specialties.

Over time, our platform was expanded with many features that support medical education in practice. It is now being used by the majority of Dutch postgraduate trainees.

Reconcept EPA Portfolio is used nation wide by the following Dutch specialist associations:

People & Culture

Our team consists of 15 people who work together closely to provide the best service possible. They all live close to the city for optimal collaboration. We keep all development expertise in-house, to ensure that we have full knowledge of and control over any development choices made. This also allows us to keep improving our product and its user experience, as we described in this magazine.

Our organizational culture is fairly ‘flat’ (as is the cultural standard in The Netherlands), which means that people’s ideas and concerns are welcomed regardless of their seniority.

Hyper-Specialized

Our company is hyper-specialized in providing software for practical medical education. We just don’t do anything else. Even better: our focus is the EPA Portfolio that is used by trainees and their trainers. We do not offer tools that are better left to other systems, such as scheduling tools or examination software. This means all of our team’s efforts are spent on providing the best possible experience for trainees and their trainers.

Security is our top priority

Being trusted with the personal information of so many learners is not something we take lightly. That’s why we make information security and privacy our top priorities

• All personal data is stored within the EU
• We are fully GDPR compliant
• We are ISO 27001 certified and audited yearly by an independent authority
• We take a privacy-first approach in software development