Final Assessment

Supervised Practice

Stage 1Assessment

Stage 2 Assessment

Scheme for Registration Timeline

Important Stage 1 and Stage 2 completion dates for OSCE sittingsDeadline for Stage 1 sign off to guarantee a full Stage 2 visit before the OSCE application deadline

Stage 2 completion date for next available round of OSCE’s

OSCE dates

Friday 03 April 2015 Friday 15 May 2015 Summer 201529 June–03 July06 - 09 July 

Friday 22 May 2015 Friday 31 July 2015 Autumn 201514 – 20 Sept 23 – 25 Sept

Friday 16 October 2015 Friday 27 Nov 2015 ProvisionalWinter 201611-15 Jan

Friday 04 December 2015

Friday 15 Jan 2016 ProvisionalSpring 201601-03 March

Your assessor will continually review your progress to ensure that you are realistic in your expectations of when you will be ready to sit the OSCE

Demonstrating competenceWhere the element of competence requires that you: “Do” something - the assessor will expect to see you work

with patients to perform that particular skill or procedure, either by watching you (DO) or looking at what you have done previously in your patient records (PR).

“Understand” something - as a minimum, there will be a “what if” case scenario (CS) discussion with the assessor about that element based on your patient records or a case scenario presented by the assessor.

There are other forms of evidence including recognising images of ocular conditions and managing them (I) and prescription interpretation (PI) and knowledge seeking questions (Q).

Check that your evidence is valid and relevant to the element descriptor

Patient confidentiality and supervision requirements

For patient records to be used as evidence:

You must seek patient consent for ALL their records to be viewed by one or more College assessors as part of the process (please note this also includes dispensing, CL related and hospital records)

Patient consent must noted on the records Verbal consent from the patient is sufficient You must note in your logbook and on the patient

record the name of the person supervising you when saw th you dispensed / examined this

patient

Contact lens and Dispensing records

You must provide complete records (i.e. not just dispensing orders or partially completed CL records) for assessment

If in doubt then to help with recording evidence, use the College templates found in Annex 8 of your handbook as your original record.

Use these templates particularly if you want to use the record as evidence in the assessment process.

RGP Contact Lens Fitting and Aftercare

What constitutes an appropriate RGP fitting record Measure K’s and take other preliminary measurements From these measurements decide on appropriate lens specification Order the lenses Check ordered lenses on eye Instruct patient to wear the lenses and review at a follow up

appointment to issue contact lens prescription

What constitutes an appropriate RGP aftercare record The patients need to have worn the lenses (be real wearers!) and

require a refractive correction If the patients seen for aftercare are all 2 week follow-ups, where the

likelihood of complications is low then the assessor will use images of RGP aftercare complications to investigate your ability in

this area along with the observation and the evidence from your patient records

HES Experience For community practice based

trainees You must use your HES

logbook to provide evidence of your HES experience

This should be completed at each of your HES visits by your HES supervisor

Finally it should be shown to your practice supervisor for sign off before being used in the assessment process

Acceptable Witness Testimony Evidence

this should clearly identify what the trainee has done whilst being observed by the Witness

Witness Testimony/Observationa Record (delete as appropriate)

Name of Trainee: Miss A. Trainee Date 2nd March 2011 The Witness Testimony will never act as sole evidence for Sign Off The Witness Testimony within the HES should be used as a record of observational evidence except in the following instance:

where the trainee is using the Witness Testimony to confirm their “ability” in which case a copy of the patient record would also need to be attached. In this case the Witness is confirming that the technique was carried out by the trainee e.g.

I witness that the assessment of Patient AAA ….was carried out by Trainee XXX as per the attached copy record.

Description of the Task Carried Out

Should include …

Positive language, i.e. I observed / I was present when... Describe how the task was carried out e.g. on time / to the standard requested

State number of occasions same or similar tasks were carried out I have today observed while Miss A. Trainee examined a patient presenting with a red eye. She set up the slit lamp appropriately and unprompted was able to identify cells in the anterior chamber and suggest that the patient was suffering with anterior uveitis.

Signed by witness Position of the Witness

Anne Optometrist Supervising Optometrist Name in BLOCK Capitals Contact Details ANNE OPTOMETRIST Eye Casualty,

A Hospital Tel: 01234 567890

Fair assessmentReasonable adjustments If you feel that you may need special consideration e.g. dyslexia:

Write to the Director of Education at the College stating: Your special circumstance What reasonable adjustments you would wish to be made to allow

assessments to be equitable with that of other candidates (Trainee Handbook, Regulations section Annex 12 from 16.)

Complaints and appeals Work-based assessment

Complaints process for work based appeal (Trainee Handbook, Regulations section Annex 12 from 42.)

Contacting meBest route for the quickest response Email: Text or leave a message on mobile Next Home number: Finally GPO but not registered or recorded delivery to:

Visit Preparation: all relevant information must be sent to me at least 1 week before the assessment date.

If it does not arrive neither do I.

If your assessment visit is cancelled at short notice then you will be charged for the visit