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Trainee psychiatrists’ assessment outcomes

c/o Department of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, The Triangle, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7XP

David Dickinson, Business Manager and Pauline Swan, Head of Medical Personnel

Department of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, University of Oxford on behalf of the Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans of the United Kingdom

Declaration of interest

None.

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AIMS AND METHOD

The Record of In-Training Assessment grades of all registrars in the psychiatric specialties in the UK were analysed for each of three successive years, specialty by specialty, and compared with the average outcome for registrars in all disciplines over the same period.

RESULTS

Over 98% of psychiatry registrars were assessed as satisfactory, 1.2% needed targeted training and 0.7% were graded as unsatisfactory, requiring repeat training. Targeted training and repeat training led to a satisfactory outcome in the majority of cases.

CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

The process of assessment needs to become more objective, and should do so as the Royal Colleges develop better measures of clinical competence.

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