Table 1.
Individual tasks making up the community placement programmatic portfolio assessment
| 1. | Evidenced Based Medicine (EBM) Task - (20% of the portfolio mark) The EBM marking criteria had 15 assessable components assigned a score of 1-4 by the marker, with a maximum total score of 60. In a written assignment, students identified a health related question from a patient they had seen in general practice, and then applied an evidence based practice approach in order to provide a patient narrative that answered the patient’s question. |
| 2. | Community Profile Project (CCP) - (20%) The CCP task had 9 assessable components, mostly scored 1-4 (two items were marked out of 2) for a maximum total of 34. A further written assignment where the student needed to explore and identify important sub-groups within a chosen community, describe and understand what the major health issues were, and consider what some of the determinants of health, and additional services might be for such a community. |
| 3. | Primary Care Areas of Priority Cases (PCAPs) - (10%) The PCAP task had 11 assessable components, scored 1-4, for a maximum total of 44. Each student in the cohort presented an interactive one-hour case-based teaching session to a small group of their peers derived from one of eight national health priority areas. |
| 4. and 5. | Two Supervisor Assessments (both an Urban and Rural Assessment) – (10%) each. The Supervisor tasks had 9 assessable components, eight of which were scored 1-4, and one (punctuality) on a scale of 1-3 giving a maximum total of 35 each. The supervisor assessed the students on communication skills history taking, examination skills, clinical reasoning, investigation and management plans, preventative health, professional behaviours. |
| 6. | Written Summative Assessment (MCQ) – (30%) This was a 60-item single best answer written assessment in which the material for the assessment came from the PCAPS. (largely chronic disease management problems) and pre-prepared self directed learning problems (largely acute common primary care problems). |