Assessment in a Clinical Context (P00985)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MED-P-P00985

This certificate level course will develop the themes identified in the certificate modules. This module will develop participant's skills as assessors and appraisers in a clinical context.

It will review the importance of the teacher as a role model and will examine the following areas:
- Critically review the present assessment processes and techniques used in medical education and in the participants own clinical setting.
- Critical review of existing assessment processes in both under and postgraduate medicine.
- Planning an assessment process in the participants clinical setting including using the assessment blue print, conducting a feasibility study from the assessment, attempting to maximise validity, reliability and acceptability and defining the implications of the assessment and student learning.
- When and why to assess
- The purposes of assessment in particular looking at a case study (re-validation)
- Concepts of competency based and outcome based assessment

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Medical Education, (Medicine, Schedule R)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 9 hour(s) per week for 4 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

In respect to assessment, by the end of the module the student will be able to
- Describe the assessment process
- Design formative and summative assessments
- Apply the concepts of reliability, validity, utility, relevance and applicability to examination methods
- Apply to apply an appropriate technique for standard setting, for example, Modified Angoff, Abel, Hofstee, cut score, relative score, holistic.
- Discuss the implications of an assessment on students and the institution
- Define the components of assessment and maximise their reliability
- Plan and describe an assessment process in a clinical context
- Define, and develop an assessment blue print
- Explain the social and political need for assessment
- Describe a competency based and outcome based assessment process
- Discuss the literature on assessment in medical education and present issues in assessment

Assessment Information

The course will be assessed by one piece of coursework. This will amount to 100% of the assessment. Participants will design an assessment process for their own clinical context using an assessment blue print. They will justify the methods used and conduct a feasibility assessment