Professional and Linguistic Assessments (PLA) Board vacancies

We have three vacancies on the Board due to current members' terms of office coming to an end.

The PLAB Test, the main route to registration for international medical graduates, comprises Part 1 (question paper) and Part 2 (OSCE). There is a Panel for each Part, responsible for ensuring that each exam is of the appropriate standard and for recommending developments.

The panels report to the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (‘the Board’). The Board is responsible for developing and reviewing methods of assessing, to the appropriate standard, the knowledge and skills determined by the Registration Reference Group under section 23(2) of the Medical Act 1983; to conduct tests in accordance with these methods; and to oversee the development of each examination.

Vacancies

We have three vacancies on the Board due to current members’ terms of office coming to an end:

• F2, ST1, CT1, CT2, FTSTA grade or Trust doctor who has passed PLAB within the last three years
• Hospital consultant with F2 trainees on team
• International medical graduate who has passed the PLAB test.

Applicants should be practising clinicians, with knowledge and understanding of assessment methods, and of the duties and responsibilities of a doctor successfully completing FY1, and experience of running OSCEs and, with the exception of the first vacancy, at the level of Consultant or GP Principal, or of equivalent academic status. Applicants are required to hold a licence to practise.

Documents for applicants

• PLA Board Notes for applicants (pdf)
• PLA Board Job description (pdf)
• PLA Board Person specification (pdf)
• PLA Board Application form (Word)

The closing date for completed applications is Monday 6 September 2010.