We provide tailored support for medical certification bodies, ranging from professional standards to operation of examination systems. We help them run their assessments according to internationally recognised best practice in:

• Assessment design
• Assessment delivery
• Scoring and marking
• Standard setting

Our clients

• European Society of Cardiology
• General Dental Council
• General Pharmaceutical Council
• Royal College of Anaesthetists
• Royal College of Emergency Medicine
• Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
• Royal College of Ophthalmologists
• Royal College of Surgeons

What we do

We help ensure the proper working of standards, qualifications and assessments and assemble the evidence to demonstrate this. This evidence includes analytical work, often on large datasets; consultation and field work with centres, educators and students; reporting and evidence-led action planning. It often also includes training and capacity development with stakeholders, and support for strategic development.

Here are some typical examples of what we do:

• We help professional bodies redesign their membership and certification processes.
• We develop new professional and occupational standards.
• We develop new qualifications and curriculums.
• We write high stakes assessments for awarding organisations and Government agencies.
• We provide an outsourced turnkey examinations service.
• We support regulators with their work to oversee examinations.
• We provide statistical analysis of assessment data.
• We move assessments from on-paper to on-screen.
• We have extensive experience of on-screen testing. We support certification bodies in identifying and procuring technology platforms, and we have written thousands of objective and constructed-response test questions for delivery on-screen.
• We provide assessment analysis classical test theory, item response theory and generalisability theory, as well as managing the conduct and analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Delivered by AlphaPlus, part of the AQA group.