Current Examiner Training Dates Available

The following guidelines confirm eligibility criteria for the Year 1, 2 & 4 OSCE examinations.

Guidelines:

WMS Phase 1,2,3 OSCE examiner eligibility

1. Clinicians of at least 3 years’ experience of clinical practice since the date of graduation.

OR

• Trust clinical teaching fellows familiar with OSCEs only required to have 2 years clinical practice experience since graduation.

AND

• Active involvement in teaching WMS medical students.
• Evidence of good standing within their professional body. Completion of appraisal and good standing with the GMC (or other professional body) and Postgraduate Deanery (if applicable) or have had an educational appraisal with a WMS associated academic (who is eligible to examine).
• Attendance at the relevant examiners training course with no concerns about ability to be an examiner and retraining every three years.
• Commit to being available as an examiner for a minimum of three sessions.
• All examiners are required to declare any potential conflict of interest in relation to examining students they have a prior relationship with.
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• Retired clinicians can continue to examine post-retirement from clinical practice if:
• They are actively involved in teaching the relevant Phase of WMS students.
• They are in good standing with the GMC (or other professional body) or have had an educational appraisal with a WMS associated academic (who is eligible to examine).
• They have attended an examiner training session within 3 years.

Other interested applicants who don’t fulfil the above criteria but believe they would be a credible examiner for OSCE (in one Phase or all three), can apply in the form of a brief covering letter and one page CV which should be submitted to the Clinical Assessment Subgroup at WMS via MBChB.Examiners@warwick.ac.uk. Eligibility will then be considered on an individual basis.

They are actively involved in teaching the relevant Phase of WMS students.

Examiners are required to register their interest and we will contact them to confirm whether a space on their chosen training workshop is available.