Metrics in Medical Education

If every doctor is a teacher, then every doctor should be an examiner too. Assessment has a huge impact on learning; more so than most realise. Whilst there have been seemingly endless changes to current assessment strategies, there are some fundamental tenets to fair assessment that have changed little in recent decades. Similarly, whilst the hurdles to good quality assessment seem innumerable, there are lessons to be learnt from the literature that can lessen the impact of assessment on busy doctors.