Medical Lecture On Assessing Doctors At Workplace
By Azaraimy HH

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Institute of Medicine (IM) of Universiti Brunei Darussalam held a medical lecture on "Assessing Doctors at their Workplace" recently at the university.

The guest speaker was Professor Peter McCrorie, who is the Head of the Department of Medical and Healthcare Education at the St George's University of London, United Kingdom.

In his talk, Professor McCrorie discussed with doctors, clinicians,, academicians and health professionals on how best to implement assessment of doctors at their workplace.

The B Biomedical Science and B Health Science/ Medicine students also attended the lecture.

The event was part of a series of lectures organised by the Institute of Medicine to support its philosophy of being a socially responsible institution and to promote lifelong learning for the people of Brunei Darussalam.

In the lecture, it was revealed that revalidation of doctors is on the horizon. It will soon no longer be the case that doctors have only to demonstrate their abilities in order to become registered, whether as a junior doctor or a specialist.

The general public is demanding that their knowledge, skills and attitudes should be re-checked at regular intervals as people's lives are in their hands.

When this happens, there is a need for fair, reliable and valid assessments to be put in place if revalidation is to work properly.

Knowledge can be tested by written examinations, but how do you assess a doctor's skills and, even more challenging, a doctor's attitude towards his job, his patients and his colleagues? The answer lies in workplace assessment - assessing the doctor's actual practice.

At the lecture, measures on how to assess doctors are discussed and the problems involved in assessments and ways to tackle them were also highlighted. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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