The Victorian Metropolitan Alliance's Education Enhancement program: A reflection.
BACKGROUND
The Victorian Metropolitan Alliance's (VMA's) Education Enhancement Program (EEP) began as a program of remediation for general practice registrars in 2006. Considerable experience was gained in the area of remediation, culminating in the opening of the VMA's Diagnostic and Assessment Centre in 2011. Since then, the EEP has made its services and expertise available externally and has been conducting comprehensive assessments of clinical skills, focused educational interventions, mentoring and audit of medical records for doctors.


OBJECTIVE
This paper presents the data with respect to the external activities of the EEP, challenges encountered and lessons learnt.


CONCLUSIONS
The EEP has provided some valuable services. The comprehensive assessments of clinical skills, being high-stakes assessments, required rigorous processes. There has been a greater than expected demand for educational interventions, particularly with respect to communication skills and prescribing, highlighting the need for such services to be more widely available.
George
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Zaharias
D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards; D058006:General Practice / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D008611:Mentors; D014739:Victoria