ASSESSORS’ CONFERENCE
“Think of yourself as a coach”
Assessors brainstorm ways to help physicians get the most out of assessments
M
ore than 300 of our physician-assessors
showed up to a brainstorming session to discuss ways of ensuring that Ontario’s physicians can get optimal benefit from their assessments.
“We are opening up the peer assessment process in a
way that we never have before,” Mr. Wade Hillier, director of the College’s Quality Management division, told
the attendees at the April conference. “This is an exciting time of re-invention. And to make the assessment
process the best that it can be, we need to hear your
thoughts and observations.”
The College is engaged in a multi-year, cross-College
initiative to create a common assessment model and
continuous quality improvement strategy for all College
physician assessments. This re-visioning project is currently focused on improving peer assessment.
Assessors will be central to creating new assessment
processes, tools and reporting formats, including the
development of
discipline-specific
quality indicators.
Assessors will also be
trained to develop
skills in facilitation,
feedback and CPD
coaching.
There are five key
goals to the peer assessment re-design,
explained Mr.
Hillier. It must be
discipline-specific;
Dr. Solomon Sogbein (left), and Dr.
purpose-driven;
Satish Rangaswamy, Peer Assessors
consistent; relevant;
and lastly, it must be transparent so that any physician
can readily see how the peer assessment program defines
and evaluates quality.
Assessors from the Geriatric Medicine Network Group: Dr. K. Jennifer
Ingram (Network Lead), Dr. Nicole Didyk and Dr. Barbara Power
Dr. Kevin Imrie, a former College assessor and President-elect of the Royal College of P