Thread by @AnonPharma22

.@TheGPhC @gmabbam @prof_standards @the_pda @rpharms @BTLGroup @BBCNews @DailyMailUK @Telegraph a thread highlighting the incompetence of this regulatory body, the assessment provider and the issues with the exam... #gphc #gphcexam #pharmacy (1/15)

https://twitter.com/TheGPhC/status/1542567464546058243

Let’s start off nice and easy with the booking portal, an absolute joke. ~£500,000 was taken from 2700 trainees and you could not invest in a decent server? Not to mention ‘accidentally’ releasing slots the day before.. (2/15)

The most pressing assessment issue is that candidates who were delayed sat the exams later on and had access to the questions and answers of both assessments. Sure, it wasn’t all, but it only takes 1 person to ruin the integrity of the assessment. The fact that @TheGPhC.. (3/15)

Have not addressed this is shocking. They’re panicking and resorting to a ‘provisional register’ to resolve everything. A regulatory body is willing to pass candidates who may have cheated to become registered healthcare professionals and put the public at risk? Wow... (4/15)

The exam we just did does not meet any of these points 😂 how ironic...(5/15)

@BTLGroup secure high-stakes paper? Really? Candidates had access to their phones and some even had calculators for part 2. Anything but secure, it seems BTL must stand for Bullshit Trial Logistics 💩 .. (6/15)

In the interest of fairness, candidates who were delayed should be marked separately from the rest and thus, separate grade boundaries, to prevent grades that would most definitely be skewed and unrepresentative of the cohort.. (7/15)

Now on to the delays/issues at several centres, not just Nottingham. In various venues, PCs did not arrive till 11am, ID+equipment checks were not performed, invigilators were happily watching Wimbledon during the exam, being stingy with papers- in fact, some candidates.. (8/15)

Could only get more paper if they handed in their current ones in- 2 papers at a time and they didn’t get at least 1hr break as advised. @BTLGroup how do you hire your staff? How do you even train them? Some didn’t even know what items were permitted. Shambolic.. (9/15)

Now on to the actual assessment, @TheGPhC cunningly changed the exam layout from 2-3 sections. This isn’t quite an issue, however, sections 1-2 were both labelled 1-45, causing confusion. In addition, to go back to previous Qs, majority of students had to constantly.. (10/15)

Click back due to the lack of speed of the assessment programme. The flagging system was redundant. Apparently, there was a filter system for flagged Qs, but this was stupidly not mentioned in the instructions, so the majority were unaware. Are we being assessed on our... (11/15)

Clinical ability and decision-making or how fast we can click a mouse? 🙃 The questions were not representative of the framework either. They did not appear to reflect the high-low weighting and they were most definitely not representative of the sample questions given.. (12/15)

Unbelievably wordy and highly unrealistic. And expecting candidates to work out eGFR WITHOUT A CALCULATOR TOPS IT OFF FOR ME... (13/15)

I hope the board of assessors who set these questions consider these issues and make appropriate and fair decisions regarding marking.. (14/15) @andy_husband1 @DocDessy @ChrisALangley @mathewsmith1 @alisonstrath @w7kat @chandsonia81 @DrHMBell

Overall, this whole thing was a farce from the point of booking to actually sitting the exam. Time and time again, the GPhC fail to demonstrate the standards imposed on healthcare professionals they supposedly regulate. It’s time the regulator is independently regulated. (15/15)

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