Authentic assessment and constructive feedback

1. Authentic assessment and constructive feedback Marianne Rial MPharm programme

2. Some background... • Pharmacy is a vocational degree • Four year degree to teach the theory followed by one year clinical pre-registration practice • Educational standards set by General Pharmaceutical Council • Clinical skills have to be taught and assessed during the theory years

3. Using clinical simulation • Allows students to experience specific situations and deal with them in a safe, controlled environment • Provides us with the opportunity to offer immediate feedback to the students • Students have the opportunity to use their theoretical knowledge in practice and learn from others • However, we are lecturers, not actors! • We have started using a casualty simulation organisation

4. How it works • A range of clinical scenarios covering a range of chronic conditions prepared • An appropriate actor is allocated for each appropriate case • Actors provided with information prior to session and briefed beforehand • Students given immediate feedback from the facilitator and actor

5. What do the students think.. • “it really does help you learn… those things you can’t learn from a book, you can only learn from the clinical experience” • “casualties union day was brilliant, can we have lots more of them please!” • “learning from others as well while watching them do it and where they went wrong. So you can learn from their mistakes too so everyone learns from each other”

6. Does it help when employed • ” I find it easier to portray the knowledge that I have learnt from my degree when talking to a patient, dispenser or other health professional. It allowed me to practise my communication skills and I have found that I was more confident afterwards when dealing with patients.”