Quality Assurance

The responsibility for implementing the curriculum, creating appropriate training structures, and delivering training and assessment rests with individual training programmes as exercised through the various school and training programme structures.

Quality assurance of these processes takes place under the oversight of the postgraduate deans and the regional offices of the four UK training organisations and will be monitored by the GMC through approval of training programmes and locations, and inspection of these by formal visits.

The RCR assists in the quality assurance of all aspects of training through the following activities:

• developing, reviewing and maintaining curricula and assessment frameworks that incorporate the GMC’s Generic professional capabilities framework and meet the requirements set out in the GMC’s Excellence by design standards for postgraduate curricula.  The GMC quality assures the curriculum through its curriculum approval process
• providing Regional Specialty Advisers to support local quality assurance processes within their region and to act as external advisers to support quality assurance of the annual review of competency progression (ARCP) process across regions
• appointing a Training Quality Lead to support the RCR to improve quality assurance processes and enhance awareness of these processes
• providing resources to support the consistency of progression decisions at ARCP across regions, such as ARCP decision aids.
• quality assurance of the FRCR examinations
• providing training and educational resources for trainers, including training courses, e-learning materials and other guidance
• collecting and analysing data on the quality of training in order to share good practice and highlight concerns

Through these processes the RCR aims to promote high quality education and training.

If you have any queries regarding quality assurance please contact [email protected]