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Specialist registrar
How to assess your specialist registrar
1 Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust, RCPCH lead for Performance Assessment, Sheffield, UK
2 RCPCH Education Fellow and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge, Department of Paediatrics, Cambridge, UK
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Dr H Davies
Consultant in Late Effects/Medical Education, Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK; h.davies@shef.ac.uk
Accepted 23 December 2003
Performance assessment requires careful thought and planning
Keywords: RITA; assessment; postgraduate education; specialist registrar
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This paper outlines the principles of good assessment, including the importance of defining the purpose of assessment as well as what should be assessed. It then considers how SpR assessment should be undertaken, including possible tools for assessment such as peer ratings, patient assessment mini-CEX, and portfolios. It concludes with a brief discussion of how to draw together the various aspects discussed and some advice on remediation.
There is a requirement for annual assessment of all specialist registrars (SpRs).1 However, this is undertaken on an ad hoc basis with wide variation in practice both between and within specialties. Little of the assessment undertaken to date has been sufficiently robust to withstand legal challenge. Annual assessment for SpRs is soon to be extended to SHOs through Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and public, political, and professional pressure to show that adequate self regulation has been important in driving revalidation forward.
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