Workplace-Based Assessments for SAS Doctors within the NHS

Who Would Benefit

Healthcare professionals who have not been formally trained in Workplace Assessment or who are in need of a refresher.

Course Description

The pressure on doctors to work and supervise their junior colleagues and other peers has never been higher within the context of Workplace Assessment for SAS doctors. This programme is designed to enable individual doctors to work with a number of assessment tools and build tips and techniques to ensure they are using them correctly, fairly and consistently. By its nature, it will be a practical programme.

CPD Points: 6
Training Course Category: Healthcare
Recommended No. of Days: 1
Training Course Location: To be determined by Client

Learning Outcomes

Understanding of workplace-based assessments
Your roles and responsibilities within the assessment
Understand the roles and competencies required within the Medical Education Faculty
How to apply Miller's Pyramid
Understand and apply in-work assessment tools for both Foundation and Specialist trainees
Be able to demonstrate competence in providing educational feedback for a range of different clinical scenarios
Assess colleagues in their assessments of others
Practically apply the skills and receive feedback

The Programme Includes:

What is Workplace-based assessment (WPBA)?
The roles and responsibilities for effective WPBA
Educational supervision - who can assess who?
Assessment definitions & the key principles
Understanding and using Miller's pyramid
Helping to build a learning portfolio and linking to PDPs
Errors in assessment
Feedback behaviours, barriers, reactions and principles
Practical assessment skills and behaviours
Practical assessments using recognised tools.

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Additional Information

WPBA is a Workplace Assessment for SAS Doctors based on what they actually do in the workplace. The main aim of WPBA is to aid learning (Assessment for learning) by providing SAS doctors with constructive feedback. Trainees can use the same methodology to assess themselves (Reflective practice). The assessments help the Supervisor to chart a Trainee’s progress during a placement. Although the principal role of each assessment is for learning, the entire collection can be used to inform the ARCP. WPBA is trainee-led; the trainee chooses the method, timing, activity and assessor under the guidance of the Supervisor according to the Learning outcomes laid out in the Educational Agreement. Trainees are encouraged to use as many different assessments and assessors as possible, as this improves reliability. Most WPBAs are designed to help the Assessor provide objective, constructive feedback immediately after the activity. Although many WPBAs are web-based, the forms can be downloaded and a paper copy is used for the assessment and feedback. The trainee can then upload the results onto the website for authorisation by the Assessor. Multi-source feedback is a unique form of WPBA in that it uses a collection of untrained raters, and the feedback based on the collated ratings is subsequently fed back to the Trainee by the Supervisor. Thus it has aspects of Workplace Assessment of and for learning.

WPBA is the assessment of competence based on what a trainee actually does in the workplace. The main aim of WPBA is to aid learning (Assessment for learning) by providing trainees with constructive feedback. Trainees can use the same methodology to assess themselves (Reflective practice). The assessments help the Supervisor to chart a Trainee’s progress during a placement. Although the principal role of each assessment is for learning, the entire collection can be used to inform the ARCP. WPBA is trainee-led; the trainee chooses the method, timing, activity and assessor under the guidance of the Supervisor according to the Learning outcomes laid out in the Educational Agreement.

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