Theme
9JJ Admission to Medicine and Postgraduate Training Programmes
INSTITUTION
Health Education West Midlands
There is a system of
National recruitment to Dental Foundation training posts in the UK
These posts form a programme of workplace training in the NHS during the first year post qualification.
The selection centre includes clinical communication, and professionalism, management and leadership stations and a situational judgement test.
Psycometrics of assessment data have been analysed for different stations and for role player and clinical assessors.
Multiple assessment techniques using multiple assessors are likely to result in the most robust recruitment to Dental Foundation training posts.
Fine tuning of the process can result in improvement in the quality of the process.
Health Education England
University of Birmingham
Clinical assessor & role player outcomes
Overall there is no significant difference in outcome, (Bowker’s test of asymmetry giving an x2 value of 3.81 on 3df, p>0.28) but fair agreement (kappa = 0.30).
Clinicians and patient role players are likely to be influenced by different characteristics.
Professionalism, management & leadership station – agreement and correlation
Improvements in specification of model answers resulted in better agreement between panel members in outcomes.
Improvements can be made to the process of recruitment to training posts by changing the process in light of the outcomes.
Clinician and simulated patient scoring- the psycometrics of a national programme recruiting to Dental Foundation training posts, British Dental Journal 2013, 215:125-150
Wiskin, Elley, Jones, Duffy
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