Parallel to the Situational Judgement Test: is the Educational Performance Measure fair in ranking medical students on the UK Foundation Programme?

• Main Authors: Singh Sidhu H, Mahmood A, Sanghera R, Mandan J
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dove Medical Press 2016-10-01
• Series: Advances in Medical Education and Practice
• Subjects: Keywords: EPM; FPAS; UK; deanery; student
• Online Access: https://www.dovepress.com/parallel-to-the-situational-judgement-test-is-the-educational-performa-peer-reviewed-article-AMEP
• ISSN: 1179-7258

Harmeet Singh Sidhu,1 Adil Mahmood,2 Ranjodh Sanghera,1 Jay Mandan11Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; 2Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UKWe readily appraised the expert opinion by Singagireson et al which explored the fairness of using the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) to rank medical students as part of the UK Foundation Programme.1 Although we agree with many of the points raised, we feel it is equally important to discuss the role of the Educational Performance Measure (EPM), which has comparable weighting to the SJT in ranking medical students. Therefore, we aim to explore whether the EPM is a fair measure in determining the allocation of foundation-training jobs to newly qualified doctors.View the original paper by Singagireson et al