Review of programme-wide assessment of clinical skills

Review of high stakes graduation level OSCEs

Review of MFOM Part 2

Review of entire UCLMS assessment system

Consultancy and Faculty Development the Formative Assessment Project, covering all postgraduate medical training programmes in the country

• External review of graduation examinations (2021)
• Consultancy and Faculty Development on Assessment (OSCEs) (2022)

External review of Recorded Consultation Assessment (RCA)

External Review of Foundation Portfolio Assessment

Consultancy and Faculty Development on Assessment (OSCEs and WBA)

Consultancy and Faculty Development on Assessment (WBA)

Consultancy on development of workplace based assessment for postgraduate training across Malaysia

Consultancy and Faculty Development on clinical examinations for licensing overseas qualified veterinary surgeons

Review of OSCE system for their membership examinations

10-year Review of the MRCGP examinations programme (In progress)

Review of the Australian Dental Council Examinations for overseas trained dental practitioners who are seeking registration with the DBA to practise in Australia (In progress)

Reviewing documentation for the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment

Review of submission for Australian Medical Council recognition

Katharine Boursicot was invited to Leeds to consult with the Faculty of Dentistry and the Leaders of the Physician Associates Course, to review and evolve their assessment programmes.

Review of current assessment system and regulations; advice on possible changes of direction based on best evidence in the literature and good practice (Katharine Boursicot)

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• Awarded contract by the Royal College of Radiologists (UK) to review examinations for the Fellowships in Clinical Radiology and Clinical Oncology. (Richard Fuller, Trudie Roberts, John Patterson, Katharine Boursicot)
• Full documentation as well as the College's response can be viewed here

Advice on constructive alignment and design of new tests of clinical competence for certification (Katharine Boursicot)

In 2014 Katharine Boursicot was invited to be the External Reviewer for the national Australian Collaboration for Clinical Assessment in Medicine (ACCLAiM)

Advice to assist the faculties to develop assessment strategies to and improve test design and post-test analyses (John Patterson)

John Patterson was contracted as Assessment Consultant to the Faculties of Medicine, Veterinary Science and Dentistry at the University of Bristol. This one-year, part-time contract was to assist the faculties to develop assessment strategies to and improve test design and post-test analyses

Trudie Roberts was invited to chair the Professional Education Advisory Committee (PEAC) of the International Medical University (IMU) in Malaysia, which provides advice and guidance to the IMU on all matters relating to the education and training of students enrolled in the professional undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes of the IMU.

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• Katharine Boursicot, Richard Fuller, Trudie Roberts, and John Patterson have all been GMC Associates involved with QABME Visits.
• Katharine Boursicot was a member of the PLAB Part 2 Panel for 12 years and was then invited to sit on the PLAB Review Panel (2013). The Final Report of the Review of the GMC's PLAB test can be seen here
• Richard Fuller and John Patterson were involved in assessment related work including review of UK undergraduate medical assessments. The final report written by GMC staff but based on this work is seen here

• 2012: Workshops on blueprinting and item writing (Katharine Boursicot)
• 2013: Workshops on item writing and standard setting (Katharine Boursicot)
• 2014: Workshops on designing and implementing OSCEs (Sydney Smee)
• 2015: Workshops on standard setting for OSCEs and Examiner Training (Sydney Smee)

John Patterson (since 2012): consultant for production of final scores, pass-lists and statistical analysis of Part 1 and Part 2 examinations for the Membership of the Joint Dental faculties of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

• Advice to postgraduate medical diploma Examination Boards managed by the WSA, in order for their assessments to become PMETB (Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board) compliant
• Diploma in HIV Medicine
• Diploma in Genitourinary Medicine
• Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences
• Diploma in the Forensic and Clinical Aspects of Sexual Assault(Katharine Boursicot and John Patterson)