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Assessment

Summative assessment will be replaced by three assessment components:

o Workplace-Based Assessment (WBA)

this is assessment of performance (see below).
It will take place throughout the three years

o Applied Knowledge Test (AKT)

A machine-marked test
Candidates are expected have some freedom of choice about when to sit it

o Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA)

Likely to be an OSCE with up to 14 stations.
It will probably take place in the third year

Transition to new assessments

Transition arrangements for new assessments

Examinations and other assessments

The difference between examinations and assessments in the workplace principally relates to the relationship between competence and performance.

	Competence (what a doctor can do) is necessary but not sufficient for performance (what a doctor does do)
	As experience increases so performance based assessment in the workplace becomes more important

The Burden of Assessment

Plants don't flourish when we pull them up too often to check how their roots are growing

Dame Onora O'Neill, A question of trust: the BBC Reith lectures 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2002

Selection onto VTS

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