6: Assessing Doctors' Competences at the End of Training - The Entrance 'Not an Exit' 

Facilitators
Ashley Reecem, Graeme Muir & Steve Byrne - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) 
 
 
Workshop Description

This workshop will explore the issue of how to assess senior doctors in training (trainees) at the end of their training. Royal Colleges, who govern training syllabuses for their specialities have in place "exit" exams or high stakes assessments which gate-keep exit from training and form part of an assessment of readiness for being a consultant. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has recently introduced an assessment in the penultimate year of training to benchmark a senior trainee’s performance in tasks commonly performed by a Consultant called the Specialist Assessment of Readiness for Tenure [as a Consultant], known as START. This workshop will explore the challenges of assessing competences at this stage of training, describe this innovative assessment introduced by the RCPCH for their senior trainees and define the ways trainees can maximise their training to prepare for a Consultant role. The challenges of applying educational theory to assessment, benchmarking standards and providing rich feedback to trainees will be explored

 

 

Workshop Objectives

Knowledge: 

  • understand educational theory relating to assessment
  • know about the RCPCH START assessment
  • understand the reasons for introducing a formative assessment towards the end of a doctor's training