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Selection for postgraduate training.

Gominda G Ponnamperuma¹

¹Faculty of Medicine, University of Columbo, Sri Lanka. g.ponnamperuma@dundee.ac.uk

The Clinical Teacher

|December 8, 2010

Summary

Developing a robust selection process for postgraduate specialty training requires a systematic, eight-step approach. This guide ensures a defensible procedure for choosing the best candidates for medical education programs.

Area of Science:

Medical Education
Applicant Selection
Competency Assessment

Background:

Effective selection for educational programs necessitates careful planning and sound educational principles.
This article offers a step-wise guide for creating a postgraduate specialty training selection process.

Purpose of the Study:

To review literature on applicant selection methods for educational programs.
To develop a best-practice, step-wise guide for postgraduate specialty training selection.

Main Methods:

Literature review to categorize selection methods by purpose, strengths, and weaknesses.
Development of an eight-step guide for designing a selection process.

Main Results:

Key steps include determining competencies, assessing them, content identification, blueprinting, test selection, material development, piloting, and evaluation.

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Existing tests effectively assess knowledge (lower Miller's pyramid levels); scenario-based tests aid 'shows-how' assessment.

Assessing 'does' level during selection is challenging but achievable.

Conclusions:

A single test is insufficient; a comprehensive battery of tests, guided by a blueprint, is necessary.
The proposed eight-step guide offers an educationally sound and defensible procedure for developing selection processes.