Assessing clinical competency in medical senior house officers: how and why should we do it?

Abstract:

:Most consultants are involved in the training and assessment of several grades of doctors in training especially senior house officers (SHOs) and specialist registrars. In the medical and other specialties there is an increasing trend towards assessing junior doctors' competency using the record of in-training assessment process for specialist registrars and using the Royal College of Physicians folder to record competences of medical SHOs. It is necessary to consider why there is a need to assess competency, how it may be done practically, and the advantages and disadvantages of this system of assessment. There are considerable hurdles to the implementation of this system in the medical specialties within today's NHS and the organisation may need to undergo fairly radical change to facilitate this system.

journal_name

Postgrad Med J

authors

Carr SJ

doi

10.1136/pmj.2003.011718

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-02-01 00:00:00

pages

63-6

issue

940

eissn

0032-5473

issn

1469-0756

journal_volume

80

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