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Research team

The research team is responsible for written examinations’ results, standard setting and project management with other exam teams. The team is a key point of contact for complex queries and reporting on examination performance. We collect evidence and inform widely so the quality and high standards of our examinations are maintained. We also collaborate on research and contribute to publishing papers on a variety of topics related to written and clinical examinations.
The research team attends conferences and meetings regularly contributing information and data. Below is a list of events attended by the team.

Event	Heads of Examinations Conference – Sharing good practice
Event description	The conference is organised on an annual basis with the aim to provide a platform for discussion and networking for Royal Colleges’ representatives. Presentations on a number of areas including assessment fairness, methodology and patient input.
Date	8 December, 2017 -  RCGP London
Research contribution	A presentation from David Hope, researcher at University of Edinburgh on DIF analysis for MRCP(UK) Part 1 questions

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Event	Annual European Board of Medical Assessors (EBMA) Conference: Transformative assessment - “Making the strategic use of assessment meaningful for learning”
Event description	EBMA was created to cross boundaries in assessment, recognising that in medical education, as in so many things, we are linked by our commonalities rather than our differences.
Date	14-15 November 2017, Egmond aan Zee, near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Research contribution	Professor Chris McManus giving a presentation on identifying anomalies in medical assessments

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Event	BMA Medical training: Fair for all? Differential attainment in postgraduate training
Event description	Presentation by Dr Kath Woolf and discussion about differential attainment and challenges presented by the ethnicity gap in medical education.
Date	2 November, 2017 - London
Research contribution	Dr Kath Woolf presenting her research on the ethnicity gap in medical education and what drives those differences.

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Event	Researching Medical Education Conference  - ASME
Event description	Researching Medical Education is a one-day conference for all those interested in medical or clinical education research as an academic discipline. The conference is designed and run by the Association for the Study of Medical Education. The day is structured into parallel sessions and led by internationally renowned keynote speakers, there are discussion groups, research method workshops for new and more experienced researchers and a master class for those studying for higher degrees.
Date	21-23 June, 2017 - Exeter
Research contribution	A workshop was hosted by MRCP(UK), Imperial College and UCL representatives on the different designs of medical assessments (“New directions in the format of knowledge-based examinations: challenging the consensus”).

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Event	The Council for European Specialists Medical Assessment – CESMA Conference
Event description	CESMA (Council of European Specialist Medical Assessment) has a role to promote harmonisation of European Board assessments, provide guidelines to the Boards on the conduct of assessments, encourage take up of Board assessments as a quality mark and to offer an alternative to National assessments, where appropriate
Date	13 May, 2017 - Glasgow
Research contribution	Andrew Elder, MRCP(UK) Medical Director, presentation: “MRCP(UK) Global examinations in medicine”.

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Event	Heads of Examinations Conference – Sharing good practice
Event description	The conference is organised on an annual basis with the aim to provide a platform for discussion and networking for Royal Colleges’ representatives. Presentations on a number of areas including assessment fairness, methodology and patient input.
Date	21 November, 2016 -  RCP London
Research contribution	A presentation from Policy team on candidate and examiner conduct

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Event	Researching Medical Education Conference  - ASME
Event description	Researching Medical Education is a one-day conference for all those interested in medical or clinical education research as an academic discipline. The conference is designed and run by the Association for the Study of Medical Education. The day is structured into parallel sessions and led by internationally renowned keynote speakers, there are discussion groups, research method workshops for new and more experienced researchers and a master class for those studying for higher degrees.
Date	16 November, 2016 - London
Research contribution	Policy team representative networking with colleagues and presenting a summary of main pints to MRCP(UK) staff

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Event	Annual European Board of Medical Assessors (EBMA) Conference:  Crossing boundaries
Event description	EBMA was created to cross boundaries in assessment, recognising that in medical education, as in so many things, we are linked by our commonalities rather than our differences
Date	14-15 October 2016, Exeter, UK
Research contribution	Three posters based on our research on examination fairness, differential attainment and examiners bias

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