BABOONS Self- and Peer-Assessment Checklist

Written by Bath and Bits Of Old North Somerset Trainers Group

Version 5: Updated 9 November 2006

Suggested rules for use

This assessment tool is designed by trainers, for trainers. It is intended and designed for formative assessment.

The BABOONS group feels it important that it isn't used summatively. For this reason we recommend the following confidentiality rules:

visitors need to keep their findings confidential;
no permanent record of the visit is to be kept by the visitors, other than notes of personal learning points;
no report to be sent to Department of General Practice;
however, the visited Trainer may use the visitors' notes and comments for trainer re-approval visit if wished.

How this checklist was developed

This assessment tool was designed by BABOONS Trainers’ Group over a series of meetings, with input from a GP Registrar group, using a research method called co-operative inquiry. Its use in peer review was validated by the group members using qualitative research techniques.

When to use this checklist

It can be used in the following circumstances:

for self-assessment;
with one’s own Registrar at end of the GPR year;
as preparation for re-approval visit (provides evidence of reflective approach)
for inter-practice (peer) visit

How to use this checklist

Where possible ask the GP Registrar for evidence. If you are using this on a visit to another practice, you may wish to see and interview the GPR separately from the Trainer.

“Merit” criteria are given in yellow.

Visitors can choose how to assess each criterion. However, for each section one example of how to make an assessment is given in red.

The tool is in three sections:

Section 1 - Tutorials

Section 2 - Other aspects of training

Section 3 - The practice environment

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Last update: 25 May 2006

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