First, a bit of background. TREAT is the Trainer-Registrar Education Assessment Toolkit. If you visit the site here, and have a look around, you'll find a collection of tools designed to be used for formative assessment of GP registrars. Eh? Formative assessment of registrars? What foreign language is that?
There are 2 types of assessment, summative and formative. Summative assessment is the one everyone gets anxious about, as you can pass/fail and it matters. If you fail you have to resit to continue.
Formative assessment is much more soft and fluffy. It's designed to provide feedbck for improvement, not stop progression through a course. These tools are all supposed to help provide feedback in the different knowledge, skills and even values to those doctors training to become general practitioners. They are designed for the Australian system, but many have been cribbed from the UK (and I know, and would like to welcome, the UK visitors the site has been having).
Because the tools are designed for providing feedback to individual registrars, they are not necessarily validated or reliable in the scientific meaning of those terms. In other words, a registrar's score on one tool can't be compared to another registrar's score on the same tool, or even the same registrar's score at another time. They are not designed to do this, so please don't do it, and please don't let your registrars do it either. It may lead to upset!
So what will you find here?
I will be posting a regular round-robin e-mail here which takes a tool at a time, so this will form an archive of those e-mails. I may also post updates, thoughts, responses to feedback as well, which I don't think will get put into the e-mails.
Feel free to post comments here or questions.
TREAT is the Trainer-Registrar Education Assessment Toolkit. It's a web based set of tools for doing formative assessment of GP registrars. This blog is where you'll find additional notes on the tools, and other reflections about the toolkit.
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