The Ottawa Conferences on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and Healthcare Professions were set up in 1985. Held every two years they are a forum for healthcare educators to share ideas on all aspects of assessment of competence in clinical and non clinical domains. NTGPE sent four representatives who attended a wide range of sessions on Professionalism, Simulation, Prevocational Doctor, Registrar and Supervisor education and assessment. The NTGPE team also had three papers accepted for presentation at the forum on PGPPP and GPR work on assessment:

Assessing impediments to completion of GP training by a cohort of Indigenous Registrars
T Cockayne, M Wilson (NTGPE,Darwin, Australia)

Current assessment practices in General Practice Training don’t add up
M Wilson, T Cockayne, C Lesnikowski (NTGPE, Darwin, Australia)

Developing a readiness for General Practice… Learning Needs Appraisal – Innovation in
Assessment
K Pandithage, N Lamb, N Andric (NTGPE, Darwin, Australia)

Photo: Tamsin Cockayne, Kishan Pandithage and Christine Lesnikowski with the KL Medical Students at the Ottawa opening ceremony