Evaluation: improving practice, influencing policy - £2.00

In this extended paper, David Wall covers the wide role of evaluation in medical education from micro- to macro-; from the evaluation of individual teaching episodes to entire curricula; for the purposes of improving pedagogy to influencing national policy. Evidence from rigorous and well-conducted educational evaluation, he argues, is essential to achieve the best medical education for our students, our trainees and all doctors engaged in continuing professional development.