Role of formative assessment in predicting academic success among GP registrars: a retrospective longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The James Cook University General Practice Training (JCU GPT) programme's internal formative exams were compared with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) pre-entry exams to determine ability to predict final performance in the RACGP fellowship exams.

Design

A retrospective longitudinal study.

Setting

General Practice (GP) trainees enrolled between 2016 and 2019 at a Registered Training Organisation in regional Queensland, Australia.

Participants

376 GP trainees enrolled in the training programme.

Exposure measures

The pre-entry exams were Multiple-Mini Interviews (MMI), Situational Judgement Test (SJT) and Candidate Assessment and Applied Knowledge Test. The internal formative exams comprised multiple choice questions

SUBMITTER: Heggarty P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689087 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature