At 18:45 18/12/2004, you wrote:
>Michael Leuty wrote:
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> > It'll be re-sits every five years from now on.
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>Which would, no doubt, have weeded out the good Dr.S
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>I think not.
Shipman was a killer, and the idea that the Shipman investigation should be
used to determine the shape of revalidation is obscene. AFAIK everyone on
list pretty much agrees with this, and so do most of the other doctors and
professionals I meet.
However the GMC proposals were nonsense, a manifest statement that the GMC
was not fit to do this job.
Probably not conventional MCQ (college has moved away from them) but
nonetheless machine markable exam is now almost certain. Open book (or
open computer) exam would be my choice. The real worry the GMC and others
including the government have about this is that the results might prove
politically profoundly uncomfortable, and if meaningful would have, let us
say a _meaningful_ impact on the personnel status of primary care.
The question is around how it is devised and set, and where the pass mark
is positioned (including whether criterion or peer referenced).
Julian
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