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Teaching on the run tips 8: assessment and appraisal
Author(s) -
Lake Fiona R,
Ryan Gerard
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06818.x
Subject(s) - respiratory medicine , citation , library science , medicine , psychology , medical education , surgery , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 6 June 2005 182 11 580-581'The Medical Journal of Australia 2005www.mja.com.auTeaching on the runoctors find the terms “assessment”, “appraisal” and “evalu-ation” difficult and confusing. This is understandablegiven that there are no agreed definitions and the termsare commonly used interchangeably. As supervisors, we are askedto make judgements on the suitability of junior staff for medicalregistration, entry into vocational training programs or receivingthe fellowship of a clinical college. In short, we are asked to assessjunior staff. Clinicians also have roles as teachers and supervisors/mentors.