Summary:
There has been a great concern that trainees are seldom
observed, instructed, assessed and provide feedback during
their training period. It is customary that most of the post
graduate institute relies on end of assessment or so called
single shot final assessment and pass or fail is the only
outcome. Recent trends in medical education states on
giving importance of formative assessment and in training
assessment. As physicians become ever busier in their own
clinical practice, being effective teachers becomes more
challenging in the context of expanding clinical
responsibilities and shrinking time for teaching. Trainers
are often unaware of their role for the trainees. They often
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Workplace-based Assessment: An Important Tool for
Trainee Assessment
ABM JAMAL
reluctant to assess the trainees due to lack of monitoring at
faculty level. Now a day trainees are assessed mainly on
non documented methods and not in a structured way.
Moreover there is little if any feedback is being given to
them. The modern medical education given emphasize on
workplace-based assessment rather than end of assessment
or final assessment.
Key words: workplace, assessment, Mini CEX, Portfolio,
Direct Observed Procedural skill.
(J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2018; 36: 159-165)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbcps.v36i4.36088