ARCP panels

Read our tips on how they work and how to avoid ARCP face to face interviews!

ARCP panel review

Once a year all GPSTs are assessed on the basis of their:

• e-portfolio
• Educational Supervision Reports
• Clinical Supervision Reports

If you are not achieving satisfactory progress or if you're randomly selected for calibration purposes then you are called to an ARCP panel to establish if you can proceed with your training. Read our download to find out more.

Annual Review of Competency Progression panel (click)

An assessment tool for ARCP panel members (click)

The Deanery one page guide for Local ARCP panels (click)

An assessment tool for Trainers & GPSTs prior to panel review (click)

A useful tool to employ after the supplementary formative Educational Supervision meeting in March, as it ensures that there is enough time for remedial action prior to the local ARCP panels in June.

ARCP Panel Review - Reflections of a panel member from the last round of panels

Some of the important recurring questions by panel members were:

• Have they logged enough good quality entries (2 entries per week in hospital posts and 3 per week in GP, as a rough guide)?
• Are they of significant breadth and depth (multiple entries in ALL of the domains e.g. 6 x SEA per year, audit/project, clinical encounters etc)?
• Have they been mapped to the curriculum (on average 2 or more per log entry) and is the mapping valid?
• Is there good curriculum coverage?
• Have they completed the minimum numbers of workplace based assessments (CBDs, COTS etc)
• Enough DOPs (DOPs on manikins in isolation don't count!) and OOH sessions? 
• Are they using their PDP?
• What does the ES report say (clear statements by the ES are very helpful)?
• What does the CSR reveal (especially if they were from a GP Trainer)?
• What do the MSFs say about the Registrar?
• What does the PSQ reveal about their practice (NB MSF was found to be a more important discriminator)?
• Have they completed an e-portfolio entry detailing their reflections on their last post, as per Yokshire Deanery NOE guidelines (click)

ARCP panel feedback

Reflections of an ARCP panel member updated June 2011 (click)