Online Training Modules
Examiners will be given access to online training materials to be completed at home prior to their face-to-face Examiner Training Day. These modules aim to provide them with a theoretical and contextual underpinning to examiner training. They will cover such content at the format of the MCQ and SOE examinations, the theory behind standard setting and our approach to examiner performance management.
Examiners are also expected to complete annual online EDI modules in The 'Act', PSED and discrimination; Disability, adjustments and bias and Legislation, differential attainment and consolidation.
New Examiner Training Day
RCoA New Examiner Training Day will take place at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. This day will give examiners the opportunity to meet other new examiners, current examiners in leadership roles and members of the RCoA examinations team. This day will have a practical underpinning, aiming to give examiners hands-on experience of examination delivery, marking and standardisation.
New examiners who are unable to attend this training day will be required to reapply for examinership the following year.
Guidance Interview Training
New examiners will also be introduced to the principles and purpose of Guidance Interviews. In their first year, they are expected to shadow a Guidance Interview, progressing to active participation from year two onwards.
