Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Satisfactory completion of prescribed experience

9.—(1) In these regulations, in relation to a period of training in any employment, “satisfactory completion” means the completion of that period of training in such a manner as to have acquired the medical experience which may reasonably be expected to be acquired from training of that duration in that employment.

(2) Satisfactory completion of the period or periods of training prescribed by regulation 6(3) shall, if the whole of that training was undertaken after the day on which these regulations come into operation, be assessed by means of summative assessment, which for the purposes of these regulations means reports, examinations, interviews, written submissions and other forms of assessment all designed to test the competencies specified in Schedule 2.

(3) Subject to paragraph (1) and Schedule 2, the procedure for carrying out summative assessment and the curriculum to be followed by the General Practice (GP) Registrar shall be determined and published by the Joint Committee from time to time.

(4) A practitioner may elect to be assessed on the curriculum which was current at the time he started training as a General Practitioner (GP) Registrar and under the summative assessment procedure which was applicable at the time, or on the curriculum which was current and under the procedure which was applicable at any other time during the period of his training.

(5) Subject to regulation 10(1), satisfactory completion of training shall be evidenced—

(a) in relation to the period or periods prescribed in regulation 6(3), by a statement containing information specified in Part I of Schedule 3, which is completed by the trainer with whom the training took place and signed by that person and authorised by the Regional Advisor for Postgraduate General Practice Education or a person authorised by him to act on his behalf for that purpose; and

(b) in relation to a period or periods prescribed by regulation 6(4), by a statement containing the information specified in Part II of Schedule 3, which is completed by the practitioner who has supervised the training and signed by him and authorised by the Regional Advisor for Postgraduate General Practice Education or a person authorised by him to act on his behalf for that purpose.