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Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX)

The three year training program is based on the Royal College of General Practitioners Curriculum for General Practice

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Work Placed Based Assessment

The Examination: CSA&AKT

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The full RCGP curriculum can be viewed  by clicking "RCGP Curriculum for General Practice"

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Tools to monitor performance

These are CBD, COT, DOPS, mini-CEX, MSF, PSQ and CSR

Competency areas

Twelve areas of professional competence extracted from the core curriculum statement ‘Being a General Practitioner’

Collecting the Evidence

When and how


e-Portfolio layout form for CEX

This is a copy of the form used in the e-Portfolio so that the layout can be appreciated.

 

Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX) is a 15 minute snapshot of doctor/patient interaction, within a secondary care setting. It is designed to assess the clinical skills, attitudes and behaviours of trainees essential to providing high quality care.

Trainees will be asked to undertake six observed encounters during 12 months, with a different observer for each encounter. Each of these encounters should represent a different clinical problem and trainees should sample from a wide range of problem groups within the year.

Immediate feedback will be provided after each encounter, by the observer rating the trainee. Trainers and trainees will need to identify and agree strengths, areas for development and an action plan for each encounter.

Assessors: These may be staff grades, experienced specialty registrars (ST3 or above) or consultants.

Number of assessments required per year: A minimum of 3 in 6 months, whilst in secondary care.

Estimated time required: 20 minutes (15 min for assessment, 5 min for feedback)