Our national Training Evaluation Survey collates feedback from the Training Evaluation Form (TEF), taking place in the early part of the year, prior to the GMC survey.
It provides the College, schools and individual units detailed feedback on the training and education trainees undertake.
This allows the recognition of good training and is a driver for improvement in training where problems are identified. You can see a complete version of the questions that are posed (PDF 951kb). The form is a part of the RCOG training matrix and gains validity through its high response rate.
The questions on the survey were developed and are reviewed each year by the Training Evaluation Committee which reports to the Specialty Education Advisory Committee (SEAC). The committee has representation and input from SEAC and the Trainees’ Committee.
The college now has access to 4 years of data and this provides a degree of detailed analysis that is not possible via the generic questions in the GMC survey.
The committee has been working on the data analysis and has developed a number of indicators (which mirrors the methodology of the GMC survey). These indicators combine the response to a number of questions.
The indicators are:
- Education - Support and supervision
- Education - Local training
- Education - Regional training
- Gynaecological training - General
- Gynaecological training - Procedural
- Gynaecological training - Basic ultrasound
- Obstetric training - General
- Obstetric training - Procedural
- Obstetric training - Basic ultrasound
- Professional development
- Clinical governance, hospital processes and resources
- Working environment
- Behaviours experienced
- Overall recommendation
Each year the data collected through the TEF is circulated to Heads of School and Chairs of the Trainees’ Committees to allow local analysis and for good training to be recognised and for standards to be improved where needed. In addition, detailed analyses are undertaken at a national level of specific areas of training that are highlighted as in need of special attention by SEAC and the Trainees’ Committee. These analyses not only draw data from the TEF but also use other available data sources such as the ePortfolio and the GMC survey.
The key purpose of these analyses is to drive change and improve quality of education and training both at school level and within individual units. Its power to galvanise change has already been demonstrated.
The key areas targeted for more detailed analysis in the 2019 round are listed below. These reports were also considered by the relevant educational committees in the college.
Analysis by Dr Karen Joash (HOS), Dr Marie O’Sullivan, Dr Bonnie Ng and Dr Andrew Pickersgill
Analysis by Miss Melanie Davies, Mr Srdjan Saso and Dr Joanne Bailey
Analysis by Dr Natalie Brown and Mrs Sarah Reynolds
Analysis by Dr Karen Joash, Miss Jacqueline Tay, Dr Marie O’Sullivan, Dr Eleanor Rayner
Analysis by Dr Ruth Anna Macqueen and Dr Susanna Crowe
Analysis by Dr Sarah Quinn and Dr Ellen Knox