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HPE5003 - Assessment in health professional education

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Health Professions Education and Education Research (HealthPEER)

Coordinator(s)

Professor Margaret Hay

Offered

Notting Hill

Second semester (extended) 2016 (Off-campus block of classes)

Synopsis

This unit is designed to provide participants with an understanding of contemporary approaches to assessment in the health professions, with a particular emphasis on competency-based assessment. This unit aims to develop participants' understanding of assessment theory and practice applied to health professions education across undergraduate and postgraduate training. Taking a systems approach, participants will analyse their role in the assessment of their learners and the importance of their role to the learners themselves, their institution, accreditation bodies and the community.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Describe the role of assessment in influencing student learning behaviour and the learning process.
Identify and apply the principles of educational assessment in professional healthcare teaching.
Critique the range of assessment tools that can be used in the effective delivery of health professional education and select appropriately to assess a range of skills, knowledge and attitudinal characteristics in different contexts.
Describe and distinguish between the uses of formative and summative assessment procedures and the importance of feedback to both aspects.
Outline the interface between Continuing Professional Development, assessment and reaccreditation in health professions.