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Faculty Development



Faculty Development





We offer a wide range of faculty development workshops on different areas of healthcare professions education, and can also design tailored courses to suit the context (institution/country/level of participants).


Our services are tailored to individual institutional / organizational requirements.


Please contact us here for further discussions on how we might best assist you, and for consideration of fees.



University of Medicine, Myanmar





Dec 2020 : Workshop series on writing and reviewing SBAs December 2020 (via Zoom)


Type : Invited Webinar

Location : Myanmar (Via Zoom)



Management and Science University





Feb 2020 : OSCE Masterclass for Medical Faculty



Karolinska Institute Dental School, Sweden





2020 : Workshops on workplace based assessment (WBA) and feedback



University of Helsinki, Finland





2019 : Workshops on workplace based assessment (WBA) and feedback



Ministry of Health Singapore





2019 : Workshops series on OSCEs, workplace-based assessment (WBA) and portfolios



Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports





2019 : Workshop series on blueprinting and writing SBAs



Karolinska Institute Dental School, Sweden





2019 : Workshops series on workplace-based assessment (WBA) and feedback



Curtin University Medical School, Australia





2019 : Workshops series on OSCEs



Karolinska Institute Faculty of Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden





2017 : 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course and 2 days Item Writing Course



The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa





2017 : Workshops in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town on standard setting implementation and the use of portfolios in workplace based assessment



Trinity College Dublin, Ireland





2017 : 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course and Advice on Finals examinations



University of Malaya, Malaysia





2017 : 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course



Curtin Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia





2017 :

  • 2 Day Foundations of Assessment Course for School of Physiotherapy
  • 2 day OSCE Masterclass for School of Physiotherapy
  • 3 days on OSCE design and implementation for Medical School

2016 : 3 Day Foundations of Assessment Course for Medical School



Ministry of Health Singapore





2016 & 2017 :


14 Workshops for postgraduate educators on

  • Models of Validity
  • Design and Implementation of Portfolios
  • Planning Programmes of Assessment
  • OSCE Masterclasses (2 days) including
    • Principles of good OSCE practice
    • Designing stations
    • Planning and running an OSCE
    • OSCE examiner training
    • SP training for OSCEs
    • How to interpret OSCE statistics
  • Advanced Practice Nurses (Ministry of Health)
    OSCE Masterclass: review and piloting of stations


Duke-NUS Singapore





2017 : Design and implementation of a programme of Peer Observation of Teaching, including

  • Consultation with stakeholders
  • Design of peer observation form
  • Design and delivery of peer observation workshops
  • Live peer observation of clinical teaching


University of Tasmania, Australia





2016 : Tailored Foundations of Assessment Course for the Faculty of Medicine Workshop on standard setting



National Healthcare Group (NHG) Singapore





2015 : National Healthcare Group (NHG) Singapore engaged us to conduct a variation of our Foundations of Assessment Course, modified to run over 3 days, 7-9 October 2015, as they had special requirements for more hands-on experience for the multiprofessional audience they had organised. NHG is a public healthcare provider in Singapore, and wished to raise standards of health professional education and assessment.


(Katharine Boursicot and Trudie Roberts)



College of Aneasthetists of Ireland (Dublin)





2015 : 3 days of faculty development workshops on fundamental principles of assessment, a tailored version of the FAC, with more emphasis on postgraduate contexts and Workplace Based Assessments (WBAs) (Katharine Boursicot, Richard Fuller and Trudie Roberts)



Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Malaysia





2015 : 3 days of faculty development workshops on fundamental principles of assessment, a tailored version of the FAC, with special empahsis on blueprinting, item writing and OSCEs (Katharine Boursicot)



UiT The Arctic University, Norway (Tromso)





2014 & 2015 :


2014: 3 days of faculty development workshops on fundamental principles of assessment, a longer version of the FAC (Katharine Boursicot, Richard Fuller and Trudie Roberts)


2015: 3 days of OSCE focused workshops to support the development and implementation of OSCEs in the medical undergraduate curriculum (Katharine Boursicot and Richard Fuller)



Colleges of Medicine of South Africa





  • 2012: workshops on blueprinting and item writing (Katharine Boursicot)
  • 2013: workshops on item writing and standard setting (Katharine Boursicot)
  • 2014: workshops on designing and implementing OSCEs (Sydney Smee)
  • 2015: workshops on standard setting for OSCEs and Examiner Training (Sydney Smee)


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