Open AccessAn evaluation of the use of direct observation of procedural skills in the intercollegiate surgical curriculum programme
Author(s) -
Anup Mathew,
JD Beard,
Maria Bussey
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/rcsbull.2014.96.9.e10
Subject(s) - curriculum , constructive , medical education , specialty , medicine , psychology , pedagogy , computer science , family medicine , process (computing) , operating system
The Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme (ISCP) ( www.iscp.ac.uk ) is a UK-wide collaborative project involving all the surgical royal colleges and the specialty associations involved in surgical training. Workplace-based assessment (WBA) refers to the assessment of day-to-day working practice 1 and is an integral part of the ISCP assessment framework. The main aim of WBA is to aid learning through constructive feedback. Several WBAs have been adopted by the ISCP including the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX), direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS), case-based discussion (CBD) and procedure-based assessment (PBA). A systematic review of WBAs concluded that there was no clear evidence to show that DOPS can lead to improvements in performance but identified studies that showed largely positive results in terms of learner satisfaction. 2