8th Meeting of the medical assessment consortium UCAN: “Collaborative Perspectives for Competency-based and Quality-assured Medical Assessment”

On 9th and 10th February 2015, the 8th partner meeting of the Umbrella Consortium for Assessment Networks (UCAN) was held at the University Medical Center Göttingen. More than 60 institutions from 7 countries are part of UCAN support each other to create and share exam content, ensure quality assurance and develop their exams. This year’s meeting was under the motto “Future perspectives for competence-oriented and quality-assured testing in a network”. More than 80 participants from the partner faculties as well as guests from other institutions exchanged views on competence-oriented examination conception, quality assurance for medical examinations as well as on the shared software tools in 12 workshops. In the future, Joint assessment research will be further strengthened by the establishment of a conceptual cooperation advisory board to effectively address current medical testing challenges (implementation of the National Competency-Based Learning Catalog of Medical Science, recommendations of the Science Council).

Thamburaj AJ, Brass K, Herrmann M, Jünger J.(2015) 8. Partnertreffen des medizinischen Prüfungsverbundes UCAN: „Zukunftsperspektiven für kompetenzorientiertes und qualitätsgesichertes Prüfen“. In:GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung 2015, Vol. 32(4), ISSN 1860-3572

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