Welcome to the Assessment pages.  As we are currently working on this section of the website, all generic forms can be downloaded from the Forms and Guidance section.  Specialty Specific forms can be found under Specialties.  if you cannot find the information you need please email ptb@jrcptb.org.uk  

Background:

Assessment of successful acquisition of the competencies stipulated in curricula for Core Medical Training and Specialty Training (both underpinned by a generic curriculum), is based upon assessment systems carefully mapped onto each curriculum.   These systems will measure the progress of trainees using a framework (or blueprint) of work place based assessments (WPBA) and knowledge based assessments (KBA) including the MRCP(UK) examination.  Trainee progress, measured by assessment, will be recorded periodically (at 8,16 and 23 months in CMT and annually in specialty training) using the Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP) system described in the Gold Guide (1) and to a ‘decision grid’, for CMT and each specialty, designed to map onto it.  Each assessment system has been designed around the principles established by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (see www.pmetb.org.uk), and mapped to the domains of Good Medical Practice.  The general schema for assessment, not allowing for individual specialty requirements, which may be found in the Specialties pages, can be illustrated thus:

       Exit from                                      Exit from                                                                            CCT

                F2                                               ST2