Clinical Competency Assessment – Modified Portfolio Review

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The Clinical Competency Assessment – Modified Portfolio Review (CCA – MPR) will be offered from April 2024 to October 2025 and is the major clinical assessment for RANZCP Fellowship.

To be successful in the CCA – MPR, you will need to demonstrate competency in a portfolio review. There will be no Case-based Discussion (CbD) offered if you are unable to demonstrate the standard required in the portfolio review.

The candidates who are unsuccessful in the MPR can re-apply for the next round of CCA – MPR once they have completed a further 6 months FTE of Stage 3 rotation and have recorded a Stage 3 ITA (of 6 months FTE duration) with a corresponding OCA for consideration.

Structure and format

The CCA – MPR comprises the review of your three latest end-of-rotation In-Training Assessments (ITAs).

The MPR assessment requires that:

two of the three ITAs are Stage 3, along with their associated Observed Clinical Activities (OCAs)
for trainees, the three ITAs cover a training time of at least 15 months FTE duration, nine months of which must be Stage 3 training
for SIMG candidates, the training time to be reviewed must be at least 12 months FTE duration which must be Stage 3 training.

Application dates

April 2024

Applications open: Tuesday 2 April 2024 9 am (AEDT)
Application close: Tuesday 16 April 2024 5 pm (AEST)

September 2024

Applications open: Monday 9 September 2024 9 am (AEST)
Applications close: Monday 23 September 2024 5 pm (AEST)

How to apply

Complete and submit your ITAs and OCAs to ensure that your training record is up to date by the time you apply.

ITAs and OCAs that have not been recorded at the College cannot be considered as part of the Portfolio Review.

Applications must be submitted via the "Forms" tab on InTrain. No Late applications will be accepted.

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Eligibility

To be eligible for the CCA – MPR, trainees must have:

completed at least two Stage 3 rotations of at least a total of nine months FTE duration
at least two Stage 3 end-of-rotation ITAs (a total of at least nine months FTE duration) recorded with the College
completed at least three OCAs of which two are from Stage 3
completed a total of 15 months FTE of training time of which nine months FTE must be from Stage 3
the three most recent end-of-rotation ITAs and OCAs will be considered.

For April 2024 MPR enrolment, trainee end-of-rotation ITAs from Rotation 2 from 2023 with a cut-off date ending in February 2024 will be considered for the PR as one of the three ITAs required.

The eligibility criteria for SIMG are as follows:

completed at least two Stage 3 rotations of at least a total of 12 months FTE duration
have at least two Stage 3 end-of-rotation ITAs (a total of at least 12 months FTE duration) recorded at the College
completed at least two Stage 3 OCAs
a SIMG Portfolio Review will involve the three most recent ITAs, however, where three ITAs are not available, two most recent end-of-rotation ITAs may be considered for review.

For SIMG candidates end-of-rotation ITAs for the rotation ending on 4 February 2024 will be considered in scope.

Other requirements for eligibility

All trainee and SIMG candidates must have a current medical registration.
Trainees must have completed any required ‘Commencement of Targeted Learning’ documentation.
SIMG candidates must be enrolled on the partial comparability pathway and have current comparability status.

Trainees who have a ‘not in training’ status are not eligible to apply for CCA – MPR.

The CCA – MPR applicants should have ideally completed a minimum of six months (FTE) in clinical rotations during the 9-month Stage 3 training in addition to the non-clinical ITAs, which sufficiently demonstrates the competency across all the CanMEDs clinical domains and should have an associated OCA available for review.

If you are applying following an unsuccessful attempt at the CCA or Alternative Assessment Pathway you must supply a new end-of-rotation ITA and OCA to be eligible to enrol. This ITA would need to be a Stage 3 ITA of a minimum of six months FTE duration.

The Portfolio Review will not consider any retrospective applications to alter supervisor feedback in the ITA and OCA forms.

Portfolio Review Criteria

Your overall performance in the end-of-rotation ITAs and the corresponding OCAs is assessed against Fellowship competencies and your achievement of the learning outcomes. Please see the Portfolio Review Assessment Criteria below for further information.

CCA – Modified Portfolio Review Criteria