Library resource guides: SIMG resources: SIMG performance assessment (PA)

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SIMG performance assessment (PA)

The SIMG performance assessment (SIMG PA) is a component of the individual program. The PA assesses the professional performance of the SIMG against a standard that would be reasonably expected of a specialist anaesthetist/pain medicine physician who has been trained in Australia or New Zealand.

The SIMG PA usually occurs in the final three calendar months of the clinical practice assessment period (CPA) period. The SIMG PA is a one-day assessment conducted by two fellows in the SIMG’s actual working environment.

Please refer to the Handbook for specialist international medical graduates for further information.

Multisource feedback (MSF)

All SIMGs must complete a MSF during their clinical practice assessment (CPA) period. Those SIMGs who complete a PA will complete a MSF during the SIMG performance assessment (PA). This will satisfy the MSF requirement.

Those SIMGs who do not complete a PA must complete an MSF which aligns with the MSF described in the ANZCA and FPM CPD program.

ANZCA and FPM CPD Program: Multi-source feedback (anaesthesia) - guideline
This guideline assists anaesthetists, facilitators and feedback responders to complete the multi-source feedback (anaesthesia) activity.

CPD Value: This activity contributes to the completion of one practice evaluation activity directly relevant to the participant’s own practice. Completion of the activity requires a facilitator to collate data from the forms and provide feedback to the participant.

Additional resources

Wenghofer EF, Marlow B, Campbell C, et al. The relationship between physician participation in continuing professional development programs and physician in-practice peer assessments. Acad Med. 2014;89(6):920-927.
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Abstract
Purpose: To investigate the relationship between physicians' performance, as evaluated through in-practice peer assessments, and their participation in continuing professional development (CPD).

Method: The authors examined the predictive effects of participating in the CPD programs of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada one year before in-practice peer assessments conducted by the medical regulatory authority in Ontario, Canada, in 2008-2009. Two multivariate logistic regression models were used to determine whether physicians who reported participating in any CPD and group-based, assessment-based, and/or self-directed CPD activities were more or less likely to receive satisfactory assessments than physicians who had not. All models were adjusted for the effects of sex, age, specialty certification, practice location, number of patient visits per week, hours worked per week, and international medical graduate status.

Results: A total of 617 physicians were included in the study. Analysis revealed that physicians who reported participating in any CPD activities were significantly more likely (odds ratio [OR] = 2.5; P = .021) to have satisfactory assessments than those who had not. In addition, physicians participating in group-based CPD activities were more likely to have satisfactory assessments than those who did not (OR = 2.4; P = .016).

Conclusions: There is encouraging evidence supporting a positive predictive association between participating in CPD and performance on in-practice peer assessments. The findings have potential implications for policies which require physicians to participate in programs of lifelong learning.
Narasimhan S, Ranchord A, Weatherall M. International medical graduates' training needs: perceptions of New Zealand hospital staff. N Z Med J. 2006;119(1236):U2027. Published 2006 Jun 23. [REQUEST ARTICLE VIA LIBRARY]
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Objective: To determine the opinion of New Zealand doctors and nurses on the possible training needs of international medical graduates (IMGS) in New Zealand hospitals.

Design: A postal questionnaire sent to hospital doctors and nurses.

Methods: All doctors working at Wellington, Kenepuru, and Hutt Hospitals in the greater Wellington region, and nurses working in acute medical wards at the same hospitals, were asked to complete a questionnaire based on the Northern Clinical Training Network and Capital Coast District Health Board resident medical officer assessment forms regarding an overseas-trained doctor they had worked with in the last year.

Results: The response rate for the doctor's questionnaires was 68/174 (39.1%), with 51 of these from New Zealand doctors rating an international medical graduate. The response rate for the nurses was 58/60 (96.7%). Areas where the median score of the questionnaire was unsatisfactory (less than three out of five on an ordinal scale rating performance) were clinical documentation; communication with patients, families, and other health professionals; knowledge of hospital policies and procedures, and medicolegal matters; and some aspects of patient management. There was no difference in median ratings between doctors and nurses.

Conclusions: More specific training may improve the performance of overseas-trained doctors in the New Zealand health system. A further study of the perceived needs of the overseas-trained doctors themselves may be useful.