Quality Assurance of Workplace Based Assessment

Deaneries are responsible for the management of the quality of WPBA locally. The RCGP has overall responsibility for ensuring quality through the design and development of the WPBA tools, providing national training and ensuring that deaneries are covering the curriculum and making consistent final decisions about the GPStRs.

How is quality assured?

The clear specification of competence areas with the developmental word pictures will contribute to a uniformity of interpretation of the curriculum across deaneries.

Training GP trainers and educational supervisors is a key feature of quality management. The RCGP will provide at least one annual workshop for representatives selected by deaneries, and deaneries will provide local training where a shared understanding of the competence framework will be developed.  

The main level of quality assurance and calibration is at the point of making the final, holistic summative judgement on the basis of a complete ePortfolio. ePortfolios will be reviewed by panels convened for this purpose by deaneries. An external assessor, recruited and trained by the RCGP, will be involved in this process to add further quality assurance.

FAQs

Q. Is it acceptable to involve a second trainer in the review of evidence from a COT or CbD?

A. Yes. Trainers are encouraged to involve another local trainer in the assessment of some of the CbDs or COTs, in order to gain a shared understanding of the tools and to gain confidence in reviewing the evidence they yield. This is not mandatory but is one possible way of assuring quality.