Medical School Finals Conference

Tuesday 6 March 2007 - RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London (Click here for location map)

• Programme
• Abstracts (94 Kb PDF)
• Presentations
  • Barts and the London Model - Dr Kathy Boursicot (310 Kb PDF)
  • Survey Results & Analysis - Professor Peter McCrorie (91 Kb PDF)
  • Synthesis and GMC Proposals for National Assessment - Professor Jim McKillop (83 Kb PDF)
  • Current Practice at Liverpool - Dr John Smith (50 Kb PDF)

There are just under 30 medical schools in the UK. Each of them has their own particular way of assessing whether students should graduate and become licensed to practise with provisional registration.

• Is any one assessment tool better than another?
• What should be assessed at the end of the final year of medical school?
• Is it necessary to have an exit examination at all?
• Should there be more consistency between medical schools?
• Are graduates from the different medical schools equally prepared for practice?
• Should medical schools share assessments?
• Should there be a national assessment?

These, and other key questions, will be addressed at this conference. Representatives from schools with widely differing final year assessments will present the rationale behind their choice of assessment. As well as these plenary sessions, there will be an opportunity to view the perspectives from all UK medical schools through a poster session and a chance to discuss best practice through small group discussion.

The aim of the conference is:

• to raise awareness of the variety of final year assessment packages in operation throughout medical schools in the UK
• to compare and contrast these methods and, through discussion, to formulate a view of best practice
• to debate the idea of a UK national assessment
• to consider the pros and cons of sharing assessments amongst medical schools

Who should come?

The day would interest those involved with undergraduate medical education, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Deans, F1 and F2 doctors and those who train them, the GMC, PMETB and any clinicians or stakeholders who have a view about the outcomes of medical undergraduate education.

• Programme
• Abstracts (94 Kb PDF)

All queries should be directed to:-

Jennifer Bowser
ASME, 12 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JE.
Telephone: 0131 225 9111 Fax: 0131 225 9444
Email: jenniferb@asme.org.uk