GMC guidance on assessment
Workplace Based Assessment (WPBA): A guide for implementation
This document, published with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (revised in April 2010), provides guidance on designing and implementing workplace based assessments. It highlights the advantages of WPBA and provides an overview for overcoming the potential difficulties that might be faced when introducing new methodologies alongside more traditional practice.
View Workplace Based Assessment (WPBA): A guide for implementation (pdf)
Learning and assessment in the clinical environment: the way forward
This discussion document (published in November 2011) presents themes for discussion and future development of assessment.
Proposals for discussion in this paper include the introduction of new terminology to distinguish between two purposes of assessment. The first is assessment used for feeding back on progress (formative) through Supervised Learning Events (SLEs). The second is assessment used to determine progress (summative) which would be referred to as Assessments of Performance (AoPs).
View Learning and assessment in the clinical environment: the way forward (pdf)
GMC specialty assessment compendium
The GMC has identified 47 assessment methods used across 96 areas of specialty or subspecialty training.
This follows a desk-based review of curriculum documents approved by the GMC and available on our website. It reflects the assessment requirements set out in the approved curricula.
In line with the Medical Act, the GMC decides whether to approve specialty arrangements for assessment by considering them against the Standards for Curricula and Assessment Systems.
The review produced a compendium including
- 1. an overall matrix of the assessments used (xls)
- 2. summaries of the assessments (xls, 2MB) used by each specialty
- 3. a glossary of assessment methods (pdf)
- 4. a table putting assessment methods into six categories (pdf)
- 5. a list of related activities contributing to the assessment proces (pdf) (eg logbooks and e-portfolios).
If you have any comments or questions about the compendium, please contact Ben Griffith, Education Policy Manager on 020 7189 5283.