About HPAC

Academic Contributions

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HPAC was founded in 2016, to bring together a number of experts in health professions education and assessment, who had been working collaboratively on various projects for many years. The idea was to offer consultancy work and education with a focus on evidence-based assessment.

Originally, we offered two annual courses in London: The Foundations of Assessment (FAC) and the International Advanced Assessment Course (IAAC). We also offered these in Singapore. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face courses were halted in 2020. Since then, we have offered a suite of courses and workshops online.

Our consultancy work has continued as we are invited to review institutional assessment programmes and conduct bespoke Faculty Development courses internationally. In 2023, we have recommenced in person courses, starting with our Advanced Assessment Course, offered in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons Dental Faculty.

All our consultants have extensive expertise in the pedagogy and best practice of design and development of curricula and assessments, quality assurance work and wide experience in the undergraduate and postgraduate education arenas.

2023

Academic Contributions

Our consultants are involved in a range of academic activities nationally and internationally, including membership of the AMEE Executive Committee, leading the AMEE ASPIRE Assessment Panel, acting as Associate experts for the UK GMC and delivering the AMEE Essential Skills in Medical Education: Assessment (ESMEA) Course since 2008.

Our consultants are actively involved in international conference planning and giving presentations (plenaries, symposia, workshops, chairing sessions); e.g. ADEE conference, AMEE annual scientific meeting, ANZAPHE, APMEC, IMEC, JSME, Ottawa conference, TMEC.

Medical Teacher 'Talking Point' Podcast

An OSCE is not an OSCE simply because you call it that!

Professor Ronald Harden, Editor-in-chief of the Medical Teacher journal, interviews 4 guest speakers, including three HPAC consultants, while addressing some of the key points about clinical assessment from the 2022 Ottawa conference.

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2024

JAKMED October

HPAC Director, Kathy Boursicot, was invited to give the closing plenary at the 16th Jakarta meeting on medical education (18 & 19 October 2024). It was a great opportunity to catch up with old friendships.

With Rita Mustika and Diantha Soemantri, leading lights of the Conference Committee

CPIRD September

Katharine Boursicot was invited to the 30th CPIRD (Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors) conference to deliver a plenary on "Assessment for Outcomes-Based Medical Education" and co-facilitate a workshop on "Assessment of Professionalism".

63 people attended the workshop and the participants were very actively engaged, with Kanokwan from CPIRD doing a great job with simultaneous translations!

The plenary was attended by over 600 delegates with lively discussions!

Phuket is of course a popular tourist destination: we were very privileged to be taken around by local doctor Arpapun.

AMEE August

Best part of the AMEE Meeting is catching with friends from the medical education community around the world.
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We offered a joint workshop between the ASPIRE Assessment Panel and the ASPIRE Academy Sub Group to encourage and support schools considering an application for and ASPIRE Assessment Award.

Katharine Boursicot is the Chair of the ASPIRE Assessment Panel.

It was August
Medical Teacher Advisory Board
ASPIRE Assessment Workshop

VetEd

VetEd Symposium, University College Dublin, Ireland July 2024. Sandra Kemp and Katharine Boursicot conducted 2 pre-conference workshops:  Workplace Based Assessment and Feedback, which were attended by 40 people:‍‍

Feedback Workshop
Katharine Boursicot with Prof Sue Rackard, who is the Director of the Centre for Veterinary Education at UCD
Katharine Boursicot with RISR colleague
Workplace Based Assessment

Ottawa Conference

In 2024, HPAC consultants attended the Ottawa Conference on Assessment in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions, which was held in February in Melbourne, Australia.‍‍

Katharine Boursicot, Sandra Kemp and Jen Williams facilitated a 2-day course on Essential Skills in Medical Education Assessment (ESMEA). The course was fully subscribed with 50 participants and highly evaluated!‍‍

‍‍We also hosted a Symposium entitled “Death of the OSCE? Implications of replacing formal examinations of clinical and communication skills with Workplace Based Assessment”. We had a stellar group of international presenters: Katharine Boursicot (HPAC, Singapore) Eric Holmboe (Intealth, USA), Sandra Kemp (Wollongong, Australia), Viren Naik (Medical Council of Canada, Canada) and Jen Williams (University of New England, Australia), ably chaired by Riitta Moller (Karolinska Institute, Sweden).

‍‍The Symposium was attended by over 200 people, provoked lively discussions and was a highlight of the Conference)!

Conferences are always a great place to catch up with colleagues and friends!

2023

  • AMEE Annual Scientific Meeting, 2023, Glasgow, UK
  • ADEE (Association for Dental Education in Europe) conference, Liverpool, UK: plenary, pre-conference workshop and Panel Discussion
  • JSME (Japanese Society for Medical Education), Nagasaki, Japan: Plenary
  • JFME (Japan Medical Education Foundation) OSCE Symposium, Tokyo, Japan: Plenary
  • External Advisor to UCL/ Quality Assurance Review of MD Programme at HRH Princess Chulabhorn College of Medical Science, Bangkok, Thailand
  • TMEC (Thai Medical Education Annual Conference) Bangkok, Thailand: Plenary, workshop on WB
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