DAAG Newsletter - highlights

We have all been circulated the latest DAAG Newsletter. Click here if you have not got it. The DAAG is the Deanery Assessment Advisory Group and advises the Deanery in agreement with the RCGP external assessors about best practice in assessment.

Highlights for me include:

• DOPS should not be carried out be peers - needs to be trained nurse or doctor
• Helpful suggestions to trainers about helping trainees pass AKT: start early, remember 50 mock questions on RCGP website, do Pearson Vue orientation first, you only have 54 seconds per question (!), do once and move on, remember DVLA, BNF tables etc etc and lots more
• Look at Bradford website for advice about finding ePortfolio evidence about competencies
• Use the ePortfolio as evidence of progress - harness it and protect yourself!

The latest DAAG newsletter demonstrates good practice in assessment that has been agreed between the Deanery and external advisers from the RCGP and contrary to widespread belief it has not just made up on the whim!