1st Edition

Assessment in Medical Education and Training A Practical Guide

By Neil Jackson, Alex Jamieson, Anwar Khan Copyright 2007
192 Pages
by CRC Press

192 Pages
by CRC Press

This work contains a foreword by Dame Lesley Southgate, President, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. Assessment is a key method of improving standards as well as establishing competency. However, despite major developments in the assessment of clinical competence in the last two decades, there is still more bad practice and ignorance of significant issues in this area than... Read more
Introduction. The principles of assessment design. Assessment in the undergraduate curriculum. Assessment in the Foundation Programme. Record of in-training assessments (RITA). Assessment for recruitment. Workplace-based assessment for general practice training. Preparing teachers for work-based teaching and assessing. Simulated surgery for the assessment of consulting skills. Video assessment. Summative assessment. Self assessment - tools for personal development. Practice based assessment. Assessment where performance gives rise to concern. Legal perspectives of assessment. Postmodernising medical careers: assessment in an age of uncertainty.

Biography

This work contains a foreword by Dame Lesley Southgate, President, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London.

Neil Jackson Postgraduate Dean of General Practice, London Deanery Honorary Professor of Medical Education, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London. Alex Jamieson Associate Director, London Deanery GP Department, Course Director (Queen Mary), Joint MSc in Primary Care Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, and City University, London.

Anwar Khan Associate Director, London Deanery GP Department University of London