Assessment in an interprofessional and digital era

Professor Barry F.A. Quinn, Chair in Restorative Dentistry & Dental Education, Academic Lead for Restorative Dentistry, University of Liverpool, School of Dentistry. Barry is presently Secretary General of the Association Dental Education in Europe (ADEE), President of the British Alliance for Researchers in Dental Education and Scholarship (BARDES), co-President of the Dental Teachers of Professionalism in the UK and a past President of the Education Research Group (ERG) of the International Association of Dental Research (2018-2020) and metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association (2017). In 2017, Barry was the main lead for the Shaping the Future of Dental Education world workshop held at King’s College London.

At the University of Liverpool, Barry leads the integrated teaching of restorative dentistry for the collaborative learning core for the interprofessional education of dentist and dental therapy students. Barry is a past recipient of the ADEE mature educators award (2013) and interprofessional educators award (2016) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) emerging leaders. Barry’s main research has included interprofessional education, haptic virtual reality surgical skills education and has won many UK and international awards as well as having over 170 refereed publications and abstracts.

Professor Katharine Boursicot, BSc, MBBS, MRCOG, MAHPE, SFH, FRSM graduated from the University of London with an Honours BSc in Anatomy and MBBS from the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital. She worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at St Thomas', St Bartholomew's and Homerton Hospitals in London, with an Honorary Reader position at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

After studying at the Institute of Education in London, she became a full time medical educationalist, gaining experience and expertise in medical education and led the reform of assessment at the medical schools at Barts and the London, Cambridge University, St George's University of London, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Duke-NUS in Singapore.

In 2016, she founded HPAC, to provide high-quality courses on all aspects of assessment in health professions education, as well as consultancy and faculty development services. All our consultants have established track records of teaching, consultancy and research in a wide range of health professions education areas. They have extensive expertise in the pedagogy and best practice of design and development of curricula and assessments, quality assurance work and wide experience in the undergraduate and postgraduate education arenas.

She has published her research in the leading medical education journals, is an Associate Editor for the journals Advances in Health Sciences Education, BioMedCentral and is a regular reviewer for Medical Education, Medical Teacher, the BMJ, the Clinical Teacher, Higher Education Quarterly and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. She is the Series Editor for the Oxford University Press companion volumes to their Handbooks of Medicine series (Oxford Assess and Progress series).

She currently sits on the Assessment Panel for the AMEE ASPIRE Awards, and led the Consensus Group on Performance Assessment for the Ottawa Conferences in 2010 and 2020. She has also led the ESMEA (Essential Skills in Medical Education: Assessment) course for AMEE since 2008.

Katharine has advised on numerous national and international initiatives including several Royal Medical Colleges in the UK, the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, the Association of Veterinary Schools in the UK, the General Medical Council, the General Dental Council, the Osteopathic Regulator, the Lawyers Regulatory Council, the Australian Dental Council, and has held Visiting Professorships at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, the University of Hong Kong, Universitas Indonesia, Cyberjaya University, Malaysia and the University of Amman, Jordan.

Professor Richard Fuller is the Director of Christie Education in Manchester, UK, with an innovative portfolio of local, national and international education work focused on realising learner potential and improving healthcare outcomes, in association with the Manchester Cancer Research Centre and major partners including the University of Manchester.

This is underpinned by a substantial career in Health Professions Education (both nationally and internationally) and the development of sector-leading curricula, programmes of study and assessment systems in previous senior education roles at the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool which generated exciting new initiatives in curriculum design, mobile technology, assessment and personalised learning across health professions and the continuum of undergraduate and postgraduate practice. Richard practices clinically as a Consultant Stroke Physician and Geriatrician.

Richard’s main research interests focus primarily on assessment, working with a cross institutional group of research colleagues, which has led to over 200 key outputs (significant journal papers; invited and peer reviewed presentations to learned societies and institutions; educational consultancy). This portfolio of work centres on the ‘personalisation’ of assessment, to support individual learner journeys, drawing on impact-based research including the application of intelligent assessment design in campus and workplace-based assessment formats, assessor behaviours, mobile technology delivered assessment and the impact of sequential testing methodologies. Richard publishes and speaks regularly at leading international medical education conferences, and is an active PhD supervisor, with current students focusing on assessment and curriculum research.

Richard holds a number of national/UK educational advisory roles, including acting as an assessment expert for the General Medical Council, and leadership of the GMC's Tests of Competence Panel. Richard is the current Chair of the ASPIRE to Excellence Panel in Health Professions Education Assessment, set up by the Association of Medical Education in Europe (https://www.aspire-to-excellence.org/), and additionally is a trustee, and member of the executive group of AMEE.