Training in Anaesthesia Highlands of Scotland

5 minutes chat from Jenny about ST4 application, particularly Portfolio scoring

ST4portfolioScoring.webm (sharepoint.com)

Text summary:

• February start recruitment job advert 22nd July. August 25 jobs advertised mid November 2024
• Candidates upload portfolio evidence and score themselves. Then Assessor moderate the scores. Reviews can be requested. There’s also an overall “portfolio organisation Score”
• This year they had capacity to interview all who submitted a portfolio. Portfolio score gets combined with interview score to rank candidates.
• Roughly most candidates scored about 30 out of 45 points on the grid. Negatively skewed graph. You can upload further evidence during application window and scores get uplifted accordingly.
• Research – you get 2 points for enrolling patients into a research project.
• Teaching – you must upload the evidence of how much and how long and what level of involvement in teaching programme. There is a move in future to move the leadership aspect of running a teaching programme into “Domain 10” (leadership)
• A poster presentation gets you 4 points.
• Extra anaesthetics exam including EDIAC and FICM get you nothing.
• In future they may allow candidates to accept both an ICM and an anaesthetics number in the same recruitment year.
• Look at the ANRO website, the RCOA website, view any webinars they publish. The information about how to score and likely direction of interview questions is available.