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C21: Modernising Medical Education in Cardiff
Annual Curriculum Away Day
Friday 16th September 2011, All Nations’ Centre
Assessment and FeedbackPhil Smith, Sub-Dean for Assessments
C21: an opportunity
•New approach to assessments
•Build in formal and informal feedback
Assessments
•Drive learning
•Close links to teaching
Intimately linked to teaching and learning
Students tell us...
•Assessments
sometimes seem unfair
•Feedback
not specific or timely (or none)
C21 Assessment Principles
• Committing to lifelong learning and reflection
• Committing to patient safety
• Linking all assessments Tomorrow’s Doctors 2009
• Maintaining consistently excellent assessment standards
• Maintaining clear and explicit marking criteria
• Emphasising “real” clinical environment testing
• Reporting transparently to students and to the public
• Demonstrating student progression
• Recognising and rewarding excellence
Committing to lifelong learning and reflection
Committing to lifelong learning and reflection
Committing to lifelong learning and reflection
•Brief written comment at each station
What went well
Areas for improvement
•Verbatim feedback to students
Bespoke OSCE feedback
Maintaining consistently excellent assessment
standards
Maintaining consistently excellent assessment
standards
•Medical Schools Council Assessment Alliance
•Collaborative content
•50 items (42%) common to participating Schools
Benchmarking
Maintaining consistently excellent assessment
standards
•Second look
Test different part of the curriculum
Within the same blueprint
Both sets of marks used for final mark
“Re-sits”
Recognising and rewarding excellence
Recognising and rewarding excellence
•Top 5 Final MB students
•5 x 20-minute stations Medicine Surgery Women and children Community Laboratory
Dean’s List OSCE
Demonstrating student progression
Demonstrating student progression
Progress testing
•Longitudinal testing
•Whole school sits one exam
•Questions from a large bank
Sample at regular intervals from the complete domain of knowledge required to graduate
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C21: Modernising Medical Education in Cardiff
Annual Curriculum Away Day
Friday 16th September 2011, All Nations’ Centre
Assessment and Feedback
Questions