During this unprecedented time of instability and uncertainty it is a priority of RANZCOG to ensure that trainees, supervisors, and training sites are supported to ensure they can deliver the highest quality of care to the women, babies, and families of Australia and New Zealand.
Trainees have been reassured that a six-month extension has been granted to training requirements including:
- Examinations
- Assessment of Procedural Surgical Skills (APSSs)
- mandatory workshops
- In-Hospital Clinical Assessments (IHCAs)
- cultural competency requirement
- mandatory online modules
- research project/study
To ensure that trainee performance is monitored and ongoing learning supported, arrangements have been put in place to provide relief from stresses and workload related to completion of appraisals and assessments, while still maintaining trainee records and application of credited training time where appropriate.
Three-Monthly Formative Appraisals
The College encourages trainees and supervisors to complete the Three-Monthly Formative Appraisal as normal wherever possible.
Exemptions will be available upon request, where there is documented support by the training supervisor and subsequent approval by the relevant State/Territory/NZ TAC chair. Endorsement by the Training Supervisor is intended to ensure that any trainee with specific needs prior to the Six-Monthly Summative Assessment is provided with guidance at the time the exemption is granted.
Six-Monthly Summative Assessments
The College encourages trainees and supervisors to complete the Six-Monthly Summative Assessment as normal wherever possible.
For training to be credited there will still be a requirement for trainees to complete a Six-Monthly Summative Assessment for each period of prospectively approved training in the 2020 training year i.e. one Six-Monthly Summative Assessment per semester of training (or minimum of ten week period where extended leave may have been taken).
Deferral of submission will be available on request up to a maximum of six months, where there is documented support by the training supervisor and subsequent approval by the relevant State/Territory/NZ TAC or subspecialty chair.
It is strongly recommended that trainees complete the Six-Monthly Summative Assessment according to normal deadlines and deferral only occurs in situations of extreme service pressures or disruptions.
A Six-Monthly Summative Assessment can be completed with no Three-Monthly Formative Appraisal during these exceptional circumstances (if the exemption process has been adhered to).
Credit of training can only be applied at the time of an approved satisfactory Six-Monthly Summative Assessment.
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