Assessing professional competence: a critical review of the Annual Review of Competence Progression.

ABSTRACT: The Annual Review of Competence Progression is used to determine whether trainee doctors in the United Kingdom are safe and competent to progress to the next training stage. In this article we provide evidence to inform recommendations to enhance the validity of the summative and formative elements of the Annual Review of Competency Progression. The work was commissioned as part of a Health Education England review. We systematic searched the peer reviewed and grey literature, synthesising findings with information from national, local and specialty-specific Annual Review of Competence Progression guidance, critically evaluating the findings in the context of literature on assessing competence in medical education. National guidance lacked detail resulting in variability across locations a

SUBMITTER: Woolf K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6552391 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature