Assessment in Medical Education

One aim of this course is to help you reflect on assessment in medical education generally: what is its purpose and who is it for?  A further aim is to introduce you to some specific methods of assessment that are used in undergraduate and postgraduate medical training.  Finally, we aim to leave you in a position where you feel more familiar with the assessments used in your context and better able to contribute to assessment design.

This course is mapped to GMC Framework Area 4: “Enhancing learning through assessment" and can be taken on its own to support your professional development as a clinical educator, or as one of the six courses of the Clinical Educator Programme (CEP), which when completed will provide evidence that you have attained all of the GMC FAs for Supervisors.

The course consists of a single compulsory workshop (online or in person at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh), as well as an online learning component assessed by a quiz that must be a passed, though can be retaken if failed. After clicking “Apply now”, you will be taken to a form that allows you to pick an available workshop. You will then be sent a link to self-enrol onto the course. Workshops run during the month named on the course edition, but the online learning can be begun once you have self-enrolled, if this is earlier, and you will retain access to the course for at least a month afterwards.

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Explain the purposes of assessment, both generally and in your context
• Describe some frameworks and methods of assessment that are commonly used in medical education
• Contribute to the design or development of assessments that are used in your context

The Clinical Educator Programme (CEP) offers a suite of clinical education courses that are designed to develop the teaching skills of clinicians and academics who teach University of Edinburgh medical students and postgraduate medical trainees in south-east Scotland.

Please visit the Clinical Educator Programme website for the full eligibility requirements.