This paper reviews the evidence for current methods of assessment for surgical trainees in the UK and Ireland.
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Current assessment methods for surgical trainees require scrutiny; this review leaves open questions on optimal standardization and validation.
Over the past decade training pathways in the UK have been subject to extensive changes. Concerns regarding the supervision and training of junior doctors led to a number of reforms that were implemented through the Modernising Medical Careers programme and these mandated formalisation of curricula for all specialties. Consequently, the surgical royal colleges of the UK and Ireland designed the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme (ISCP), which delineates the framework for surgical training from core trainee level through to the award of a Certificate of Completion of training.
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Batchelder et al. (2013) studied this question.
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