July Begin Scheme

1. Scheme for Registration Timeline • Supervised Practice Feb to April Introduction to SfR University visit to final year July Begin Scheme August Visit 1 October Visit 2 January Visit 3 March Visit 4 April/May Stage 2 Visit June/July OSCE 10 Elements of competence 32 Elements of Competence 33 Elements of competence Additional Stage 1 Visit usually required Over-arching elements + FA of Routine and CLs by a different assessor • Stage 1 • Assessment • Stage 2 • Assessment • Final • Assessment

2. Important Stage 1 and Stage 2 completion dates for OSCE sittings Your assessor will continually review your progress to ensure that you are realistic in your expectations of when you will be ready to sit the OSCE

3. Demonstrating competence Where the element of competence requires that you: “Do” something - the assessor will expect to see you work with patients to perform that particular skill or procedure, either by watching you (DO) or looking at what you have done previously in your patient records (PR). “Understand” something - as a minimum, there will be a “what if” case scenario (CS) discussion with the assessor about that element based on your patient records or a case scenario presented by the assessor. There are other forms of evidence including recognising images of ocular conditions and managing them (I) and prescription interpretation (PI) and knowledge seeking questions (Q). Check that your evidence is valid and relevant to the element descriptor

4. Patient confidentiality and supervision requirements For patient records to be used as evidence: You must seek patient consent for ALL their records to be viewed by one or more College assessors as part of the process (please note this also includes dispensing, CL related and hospital records) • Patient consent must noted on the records • Verbal consent from the patient is sufficient • You must note in your logbook and on the patient record the name of the person supervising you when saw th you dispensed / examined this • patient

5. Contact lens and Dispensing records You must provide complete records (i.e. not just dispensing orders or partially completed CL records) for assessment If in doubt then to help with recording evidence, use the College templates found in Annex 8 of your handbook as your original record. Use these templates particularly if you want to use the record as evidence in the assessment process.

6. RGP Contact Lens Fitting and Aftercare What constitutes an appropriate RGP fitting record Measure K’s and take other preliminary measurements From these measurements decide on appropriate lens specification Order the lenses Check ordered lenses on eye Instruct patient to wear the lenses and review at a follow up appointment to issue contact lens prescription What constitutes an appropriate RGP aftercare record The patients need to have worn the lenses (be real wearers!) and require a refractive correction If the patients seen for aftercare are all 2 week follow-ups, where the likelihood of complications is low then the assessor will use images of RGP aftercare complications to investigate your ability in this area along with the observation and the evidence from your patient records

7. HES Experience For community practice based trainees • You must use your HES logbook to provide evidence of your HES experience • This should be completed at each of your HES visits by your HES supervisor • Finally it should be shown to your practice supervisor for sign off before being used in the assessment process

8. Acceptable Witness Testimony Evidencethis should clearly identify what the trainee has done whilst being observed by the Witness

9. Fair assessment Reasonable adjustments If you feel that you may need special consideration e.g. dyslexia: • Write to the Director of Education at the College stating: • Your special circumstance • What reasonable adjustments you would wish to be made to allow assessments to be equitable with that of other candidates (Trainee Handbook, Regulations section Annex 12 from 16.) Complaints and appeals • Work-based assessment • Complaints process for work based appeal (Trainee Handbook, Regulations section Annex 12 from 42.)

10. Contacting me Best route for the quickest response Email: Text or leave a message on mobile Next Home number: Finally GPO but not registered or recorded delivery to: Visit Preparation: all relevant information must be sent to me at least 1 week before the assessment date. If it does not arrive neither do I. If your assessment visit is cancelled at short notice then you will be charged for the visit