Open AccessProcedure-based assessments: an appropriate assessment tool?
Author(s) -
Thomas Mendes Da Costa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/147363514x13990346756409
Subject(s) - medicine , orthopedic surgery , advisory committee , medical education , surgery , political science , public administration
The Joint Committee on Surgical Training (JCST), an advisory body to the four surgical royal colleges of the UK and Ireland for all matters relating to surgical training, has identified eight quality indicators specific to orthopaedics and trauma. 1 The sixth indicator is that a minimum of 40 workplace-based assessments (WBAs) be completed per year of training, with some deaneries advocating up to 80 per year.