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nMRCGP EXAMINATION
The workplace assessment is designed to test the skills you use in daily practice, explains trainer Dr Chris Elfes
This part of the triangulated nMRCGP is not a specific one-dimensional exam. Workplace-based assessment (WPBA) is a closely monitored and documented evaluation of your progress as a GP trainee, over the entire three-year training period, looking at your performance in those areas of professional practice best tested in the workplace. This is achieved through an integrated package, including multiple assessment tools and a competence-based training record.
WPBA is considered an essential part of the nMRCGP for three reasons. It reconnects assessment with learning and teaching; makes assessment authentic to the situations in which doctors work: and assesses professional skills.such as team work, thai are difficult to assess in other ways. The skills, knowledge and attitudes that you display throughout the three years of development will all contribute to the final 'sign off procedure.
Assessment tools and the eportfolio
The tools used to collect evidence for WPBA go beyond those used in the old MRCGP. and are kept within the eportfolio. an online record of your whole three years of training....