Download - Changes to acem training
Changes to ACEM training - 2015
• Advanced training
• Curriculum
• Training time
• Workplaced based assessment
• Fellowship exam
• Transition arrangements
Fellowship Exam- Written• Can sit after completion of early phase
• Fellowship Examination (FEx) Focus:The FEx (Written) will:
– continue to examine at consultant level, with a focus on knowledge-application. – be a separate assessment from the FEx (Clinical)
• Format: The FEx (Written) will comprise two components:– 1. Select-choice Question – Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Each MCQ comprises a stem (i.e. a short lead-in phrase) and a number of alternative options for response. The correct response is presented, along with a number of plausible distractors. The MCQs will be written to current best-practice guidelines.
– Extended Matching Questions (EMQs)Each set of EMQs comprise a theme (e.g. a particular presentation, investigation, diagnosis, or treatment); a list of possible answers (i.e. related to the theme), and a number of stems requiring a response chosen from the list.
– 2. Short Answer Question (SAQ)– The SAQ component will incorporate Visual Aid Questions (VAQs) and be structurally modified
to align with current best-practice guidelines. The revised format SAQs will use questions that are highly structured and specific, with responses that will require single words or short phrases, rather than mini-essays.
Fellowship Exam- Clinical• To be eligible candidates must:
– Have successfully completed FEx written– Have satisfied research requirement– be in final 12 months of training
• Focus: The FEx (Clinical) will:– continue to examine at consultant-level, with a focus on knowledge-
application, skills and attributes. – be a separate assessment from the FEx (written).
• Format: The FEx (Clinical) will comprise one component:– 1. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) – A set of clinical examination stations (c.f. the pre-2015 FEx 'Structured
Clinical Examination Stations [SCEs]). The OSCE stations may include standardised patients, observation stations, clinical scenarios, communication scenarios and simulations of management of critically ill patients.