Table 3.

Certification system stakeholder consultation questions

1. What types of evidence do you think should be included in a portfolio to assist peer-review assessment?

2. Do you think electronic submission (similar to online journal submission) is a feasible system for application and document management?

3. How important is the proposal that submissions be prepared and lodged in applicants’ native language?

4. What are your opinions about the proposed peer-review process as a basis for assessment of certification?

5. What do you think are the potential strengths and weaknesses of this approach to assessment (peer review)?

6. What do you think about the proposal that feedback and guidance is a key component of the assessment and certification process?

7. What period of time do you think certification should be awarded before re-certification or further review?

8. What are the potential strengths of the certification process?

9. What are the potential weaknesses of the certification process?

10. Do you agree that an appeals process needs to form part of the overall certification process/model?

11. Do you agree that periodic reassessment of ongoing competency is essential in a certification system?

12. What are the strengths or weaknesses in this proposed system of re-certification?

13. Do you think it is essential to have a complaints procedure?

14. Do you think there should be a pan-European body to govern the system?

15. Who and how should a representative be selected from each member state on this body?

16. Do you have any other comments regarding what we have proposed?