Goddard-Fuller Health Professions Education Consultancy

With over 40 years in Health Professions Education between us, we have been involved in an extensive range of scholarship activities, delivering plenaries, invited workshops and symposia, international consultancy with a range of partners and peer reviewed publications. On this page we share a few of our favourites.

Papers

The benefits of sequential testing: Improved diagnostic accuracy and better outcomes at the pass fail boundary – Find article here

Mobilising your curriculum: exploring how learners’ behaviours are shaped by authentic use of technology – Find article here

What is the impact of your OSCE?: How, why and whe OSCEs are experienced as authentic – Find article here

Professional identity and interprofessional responsibility: how do we make sure that collaborative practice across professions is embedded in professional identity? – Find article here

Who defines professionalism?: A critical perspective on extant definitions with implications for how educators teach and respond to professionalism concerns – Find article here

Workshops

Realising learner potential through Inclusive, Authentic Technology Enhanced Assessment

Rikki Goddard-Fuller, Taz Goddard-Fuller, Vishna Nadarajah, Rola Ajjawi

ASME Scientific meeting, UK, 2025

Workshop content:

Technology in Healthcare: Conversations about the rapid growth of technology in healthcare, from handheld devices to Generative AI, discussing the possibilities for improved patient care, diagnostics, and clinical communication.

Transforming Learning: Discussion on how technology can connect curricula, students, and faculty, but focusing on how addressing the digital divide is crucial for inclusivity.

Assessment in Digital Healthcare: Exploration of how to transform assessment to prepare learners for the digital healthcare future and redefine success in a technology-enhanced era.

Making the most of your OSCE – design, data and decision-making

Rikki Goddard-Fuller, Godfrey Pell and Matt Homer

Series of international pre-conference workshops and faculty development sessions

Exemplar workshop content:

OSCE Enhancement. Setting the scene: Looking at how technological advancements offer opportunities to improve OSCE authenticity, online delivery, scoring accuracy, standard setting and psychometric analyses.

OSCE Quality Challenges. Building faculty expertise: Exploring how interpreting quality markers and making informed decisions about OSCE quality requires careful consideration of station design, scoring, and standard setting.

Workshop Focus: Tailored guidance on identifying and analysing underperforming OSCE stations and managing complex decision-making processes related to their improvement alongside practical ‘top tips’ for OSCE enhancement

Plenaries

Are we assessing our Health Professionals to work in a real-world environment? What major change is required?

Rikki Goddard-Fuller 2025

In our rapidly changing world of healthcare, what assessment of knowledge, skills and behaviours really matters? In exploring the ‘what, why, how and when’ of future assessment, this presentation explores:

Transforming, and trascending, the use of technology in assessment (calling for more focus on compassion, creativity and linking learning and assessment with safer patient outcomes)

Learning/assessment in rapidly changing knowledge environment (open books, extended minds and distributed information/misinformation)

Unpacking workplace assessment (individuals, teams and interdependence)

Joining the dots (constructing authentic programs of assessment)

The good, bad and ugly of assessing clinicians’ competence in the workplace

Rikki Goddard-Fuller 2024

How effective are our approaches to assessment? What helps – and what harms?

This keynote challenges thinking on current practice through:

Giving an overview of the challenges of undertaking authentic, impactful assessment in busy clinical workplaces

The interface of our working and learning environments, assessment practices and the increasing difficulty we face with portfolios of workplace assessment

A focus on system change, process and people change and a radical rethink about the use of technology to truly transform how we support learning and practice, whilst meaningfully facilitating workplace assessment

Equality, Diversity Inclusion and Welfare in postgraduate medical assessment

Taz Goddard-Fuller 2024

How can those responsible for setting professional examinations draw upon the good practice in inclusivity developed in undergraduate education? This keynote covers:

An exploration of the assessment realities in postgraduate assessment – what is currently designed in, how does it work in practice?

A consideration of who the learners are in postgrauate settings, and how are they learning?

Discussion on what equity, diversity and inclusion really mean in relation to postgraduate assessment, and how wellbeing challenges can be resolved through inclusive assessment practices.   

                     

Practical Resources

Technology Enhanced Assessment: International Consensus Guidelines on best practice in using technology across the assessment lifecycle – Find article here

How to measure the quality of an OSCE: how can I assure myself my OSCE is working well? – Find article here

Liverpool School of Medicine Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Curriculum Toolkit: designed for educators in health professions education who are looking to build EDI considerations into programmes or individual curriculum resources- Find Toolkit here