title: Workplace-based assessment.
abstract: Workplace-based assessment is now widespread throughout medicine. If carried out well, such assessments reconnect teaching and testing to the benefit of the learner. But workplace-based assessment brings a unique set of challenges to medical education and requires fresh thinking about how we consider and construct assessment programmes.
authors.affiliation: London Deanery, London.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Swanwick
authors.forename: Nav
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chana
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D017132:Workplace