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