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Medicine,Dentistry andVeterinary Medicine

The Professional Standards Framework

Nigel Purcell - MEDEV

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Outcomes

• Describe the main elements of the framework and recognise how they interrelate

• Outline the relationship between the ‘framework’ and the ‘standards’

• Appreciate the role of the PSF in helping individual staff in HE and in enhancing the value of initial and continuing development programmes/schemes

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The origin of the PSF

• Proposed in a White paper 2003 The Future of HE• Relevant bodies invited the Academy to develop • Extensive consultation• PSF published 2006• Academy supports – sector owns

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Key principles

• Descriptors (not criteria)• Framework (not detailed standards)• Sector ownership• HEIs determine own criteria in applying

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Areas of activity

Plan (A1)

Teach (A2)

Assess (A3)

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Learn (A4)

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Subject material Teaching and learning methods

How students learnLearning

technologies

Self evaluation

QA

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Respect for learners

Integrating scholarship

Learning communities

Participation/

diversity

CPD + self evaluation

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Associate fellow Fellow

Demonstrates an understanding of the student learning experience through;

engagement with at least 2 of the 6 all of the areas of activity

engagement with all of the areas of activity

appropriate core knowledge appropriate core knowledge

professional values professional values

(Demonstrates) the ability to:

engage in practices relating to those areas of activity

engage in practices relating to all areas of activity

incorporate research, scholarship and/or professional practice into those activities

incorporate research, scholarship and/or professional practice into all areas of activity

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Standard 3: Senior fellows

Supports and promotes student learning in all areas of

activity, core knowledge and professional values

through: • mentoring and leading individuals and/or teams;

Incorporates research, scholarship and/or professional practice into those activities

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Uses of the professional standards

• To accredit professional development programmes • To accredit professional development schemes• To give professional recognition to individual staff

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What is programme accreditation?

A process of supporting institutions in the development of professional development activity and in recognising and providing a hallmark for that activity against a set of criteria

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What are the core criteria for programme accreditation?

• Alignment with the PSF• Curriculum• Teaching and learning• Assessment against standards• Subject pedagogy• Commitment to CPD

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Process – for accrediting programmes and schemes

• Application from HEI programme team• Accreditation advisor + one or two peer accreditors• Negotiated, developmental engagement mediated

through accreditation advisor• Programme team complete mapping document• Increased focus on discipline specific pedagogy• Developmental visit(s) with team – to confirm

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Academy links

• For programme and scheme accreditation go to: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/institutions/accreditation

• For individual accreditation go to: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/professional/recognition