Beasley Spencer W, Hardware Narelle
Court of Examiners, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
ANZ J Surg. 2013 Jun;83(6):438-40. doi: 10.1111/ans.12192. Epub 2013 Apr 30.
Introduction of an increasingly competence-based Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Surgical Education and Training (SET) programme has influenced the nature and conduct of the Fellowship Examination (FEX). The FEX is the final summative assessment taken near the completion of SET training, and is aligned to the other SET assessment processes. It mainly tests two of the nine RACS surgical competencies, focusing on professional judgement and the clinical application of knowledge. It is used to help determine whether candidates are safe to practise unsupervised at consultant level. There have been refinements to a number of the processes including standard setting, blueprinting, developing marking descriptors and improving the reliability and validity of the examination. An Examiners' Training Course has also been introduced.
澳大利亚皇家外科学院（RACS）日益以能力为基础的外科教育与培训（SET）计划的引入，影响了专科医师资格考试（FEX）的性质和实施方式。FEX是在SET培训接近尾声时进行的最终总结性评估，与其他SET评估流程保持一致。它主要测试RACS九项外科能力中的两项，重点是专业判断和知识的临床应用。它用于帮助确定候选人是否具备在顾问级别独立执业的安全资质。包括标准设定、蓝图设计、制定评分描述符以及提高考试的信度和效度在内的多个流程都得到了改进。还引入了考官培训课程。
