Selecting specialist registrars by station interview

Smith, P., Dunstan, Frank David John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1043-5281 and Wiles, C. 2006. Selecting specialist registrars by station interview. Clinical Medicine 6 (3) , pp. 279-280. 10.7861/clinmedicine.6-3-279

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Abstract

Appointments to the specialist registrar (SpR) grade depend almost entirely on performance at interview, yet standard panel interviews do not directly assess the competences required of a medical trainee. In this study, station interviews were used to select neurology SpRs. Eighteen candidates were assessed in three interviews, each involving three stations: a curriculum vitae (CV)-based interview, an interview with a simulated patient, and a discussion of scenarios based upon teaching, audit and research. Two or three assessors at each station ranked candidates independently before discussing the pooled rankings and reading written references. The CV-based interview rankings (resembling a traditional panel interview) correlated less well with the overall rankings (r=0.54) than did research (r=0.83), information giving (r=0.75), audit (r=0.70) or teaching presentation (r=0.59). Station interviews appear fairer (providing more time, more independent examiners, fresh starts at each station), although they require more planning and expense. Competency-based assessments should be more widely used in selecting medical trainees.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Royal College of Physicians
ISSN:	1470-2118
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 08:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/63787

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