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Profiles
Professor Julian Archer
Honorary Professor
Faculty of Health
Julian can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Revalidation
- Healthcare regulation
- Remediation
- Feedback in healthcare
- Assessment in healthcare
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Professor of Medical Education Research & Director of the Collaboration for the Advancement in Medical Education Research & Assessment (CAMERA)
Honorary Consultant Paediatrician, Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust
Qualifications
MRCPCH, MEd, PhD, FAcadMEd, FHEA
Professional membership
Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Roles on external bodies
I am academic advisor to the clinical assessments and a member of the Expert Reference Group at the National Clinical Assessment Service.
Key publications
2009 'Initial evaluation of the first year of the Foundation Assessment Programme' Med Educ 43, (1) 74-81 , DOI
2008 'mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool): a valid component of a national assessment programme in the UK?' Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13, (2) 181-192 , DOI
2010 'Effective Feedback – the current state of science in health professional education' Medical Education 44, (1) 101-108
2010 'The current state of the science in health professional education: effective feedback' Medical Education 44, 101-108 , DOI
2010 'Assuring multisource feedback in a national assessment programme' Archive of Diseases of Child Health in press,
Teaching interests
I am module lead for a Certificate module on assessment in the Masters in Clinical Education at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.
I teach on the Master in Surgical Education at Imperial College, London.
I also teach undergraduates in paediatrics.
Research interests
Professor Julian Archer has an established track record in leadership in the higher education and healthcare sectors. He has combined 20 years in healthcare delivery – currently as a paediatric consultant in the English National Health Service, senior advocacy roles in healthcare and education with internationally recognised expertise in assessment, standards and regulatory policy and practice across the medical continuum.
He established and, as its Director, has built the Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical Education Research &Assessment (CAMERA) at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry into one of the world’s leading centres for medical education research. He has been personally funded by prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) lectureships/fellowships between 2007-2017.
He works tirelessly with government, regulators, service providers and the public to impact on best assessment and regulatory practice in the workplace to support healthcare professionals, health service systems,their management, delivery and related politics to deliver safe patient care.
Grants & contracts
Current grants:
SAFE: an early intervention for families of children with autism and Asperger Syndrome. Autistica (£149,381.66) led by Dr Becky McKenzie.
A study to establish the feasibility of a definitive randomised controlled trial evaluating SAFE, an intervention for families of children with autism. National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) (£247,402) led by Dr Rebecca McKenzie.
Further analysis of General Dental Council Fitness to Practise complaints data Julian Archer, Marie Bryce, Timothy O’Brien, Martin Roberts and Daniel Zahra (£13,791)
Patient Experience And Reflective Learning (PEARL): New research on use and usefulness of patient experience data National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) HS & DR (£723,818.15) led by Professor Julian Bion. Co-applicant and lead for MSF components in the study(HS&DR 14/156/23)
Evaluating the impact of medical revalidation. J Archer, Dr Niall Cameron,Ms Katie Laugharne, Professor Martin Marshall, Dr Sam Regan de Bere, Professor Kieran Walshe, Dr Richard Wright (£612,500) The General Medical Council (GMC)PI of a national collaboration on a competitive grant from the General Medical Council
Key publications
2009 'Initial evaluation of the first year of the Foundation Assessment Programme' Med Educ 43, (1) 74-81 , DOI
2008 'mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool): a valid component of a national assessment programme in the UK?' Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13, (2) 181-192 , DOI
2010 'Effective Feedback – the current state of science in health professional education' Medical Education 44, (1) 101-108
2010 'The current state of the science in health professional education: effective feedback' Medical Education 44, 101-108 , DOI
2010 'Assuring multisource feedback in a national assessment programme' Archive of Diseases of Child Health in press,
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 ''You're just a locum': professional identity and temporary workers in the medical profession' Sociology of Health and Illness: a journal of medical sociology , DOI Open access
2020 'A framework and toolkit of interventions to enhance reflective learning among health-care professionals: the PEARL mixed-methods study' Health Services and Delivery Research 8, (32) 1-82 , DOI
2020 'Reviving clinical governance? A qualitative study of the impact of professional regulatory reform on clinical governance in healthcare organisations in England' Health Policy , DOI Open access
2019 'Remediating professionalism lapses in medical students and doctors: a systematic review' Medical Education , DOI Open access
2019 'Is collecting patient feedback 'a futile exercise' in the context of recertification?' Academic Psychiatry , DOI Open access
2019 'The ‘Reality of Revalidation in Practice’ (RRiP) project - Experiences of registrants and preparation of students in nursing and midwifery in the United Kingdom: A descriptive exploratory survey' Nurse Education Today , DOI Open access
2019 'Patient experience and reflective learning (PEARL): a mixed methods protocol for staff insight development in acute and intensive care medicine in the UK' BMJ Open 9, (7) e030679-e030679 , DOI
2019 'Does regulation increase the rate at which doctors leave practice? Analysis of routine hospital data in the English NHS following the introduction of medical revalidation' BMC Medicine 17, (1) , DOI
2019 'Reflective practice for patient benefit: an analysis of doctors' appraisal portfolios in Scotland' Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions , DOI Open access
2018 'Patient and public involvement in medical performance processes: A systematic review' Health Expectations , DOI Open access
2018 'Patient and public involvement in the design, administration and evaluation of patient feedback tools, an example in psychiatry: a systematic review and critical interpretative synthesis' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy , DOI Open access
2018 'Remediating doctors' performance to restore patient safety: a realist review protocol' BMJ Open 8, (10) e025943-e025943 , DOI Open access
2018 'Validation of Multisource Feedback in Assessing Medical Performance: A Systematic Review' Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 38, (4) Open access
2018 'The impact of patient feedback on the medical performance of qualified doctors: a systematic review' BMC Medical Education 18, , DOI Open access
2018 'Policing the profession? Regulatory reform, restratification and the emergence of Responsible Officers as a new locus of power in UK medicine' Social Science and Medicine 213, 98-105 , DOI Open access
2018 'The International Landscape of Medical Licensing Examinations: A Typology Derived From a Systematic Review' International Journal of Health Policy and Management , DOI Open access
2018 'Responding effectively to adult mental health patient feedback in an online environment: A coproduced framework' Health Expectations , DOI Open access
2018 'The Evolving Purposes of Medical Revalidation in the United Kingdom' Academic Medicine 93, (4) 642-647 , DOI Open access
2017 'The implementation of medical revalidation: an assessment using normalisation process theory' BMC Health Services Research , DOI Open access
2017 'Towards an understanding of how appraisal of doctors produces its effects: a realist review' Medical Education , DOI Open access
2017 'The McDonaldization of appraisal? Doctors' views of the early impacts of medical revalidation in the United Kingdom' Health Policy , DOI Open access
2017 'Implementing medical revalidation in the United Kingdom: Findings about organisational changes and impacts from a survey of Responsible Officers' Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 110, (1) 23-30 , DOI Open access
2017 'UK Policy on Doctor Remediation' Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 37, (3) 207-211 , DOI Open access
2016 'The impact of large scale licensing examinations in highly developed countries: a systematic review' BMC Medical Education 16, (1) , DOI Open access
2015 'Revalidation built on appraisal may have led to confusion' BMJ 351, (nov11 5) h5999-h5999 , DOI
2015 'Without proper research funding, how can medical education be evidence based?' BMJ 350, (jun26 1) h3445-h3445 , DOI
2015 'Assessing doctors' competencies using multisource feedback: validating a Japanese version of the Sheffield Peer Review Assessment Tool (SPRAT)' BMJ Open 5, (6) e007135-e007135 , DOI Open access
2015 'Teaching metacognitive skills: helping your physician trainees in the quest to 'know what they don't know'' Am J Med 128, (3) 318-324 , DOI
2015 '"No one has yet properly articulated what we are trying to achieve": a discourse analysis of interviews with revalidation policy leaders in the United Kingdom' Acad Med 90, (1) 88-93 , DOI
2014 '"Medical education is the ugly duckling of the medical world" and other challenges to medical educators' identity construction: a qualitative study' Acad Med 89, (11) 1474-1480 , DOI
2014 'Revalidation: Patients or process? Analysis using visual data' Health Policy 114, (2-3) 128-138 , DOI
2014 'Understanding how appraisal of doctors produces its effects: a realist review protocol' BMJ Open 4, , DOI Open access
2013 'More About the Focus on Outcomes Research in Medical Education' ACADEMIC MEDICINE 88, (8) 1052-1052 , DOI
2013 'Developing a multisource feedback tool for postgraduate medical educational supervisors' Med Teach 35, (2) 145-154 , DOI
2013 'The United Kingdom's experience with and future plans for revalidation' J Contin Educ Health Prof 33 Suppl 1, S48-S53 , DOI
2013 'Workplace-Based Assessments in Psychiatry: Evaluation of a Whole Assessment System' ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY 37, (5) 301-307 , DOI
2011 'Factors that might undermine the validity of patient and multi-source feedback' MEDICAL EDUCATION 45, (9) 886-893 , DOI
2010 'Republished paper: Assessment of doctors' consultation skills in the Paediatric setting: the paediatric Consultation Assessment Tool' POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL 86, (1020) 584-590 , DOI
2010 'Republished paper: Assuring validity of multisource feedback in a national programme' Postgrad Med J 86, (1019) 526-531 , DOI
2010 'The transition from medical student to junior doctor: Today's experience of Tomorrow's Doctors' Medical Education 44, (5) 449-458 , DOI
2010 'Assuring validity of multisource feedback in a national programme' Arch Dis Child 95, (5) 330-335 , DOI
2010 'The transition from medical student to junior doctor: today's experiences of Tomorrow's Doctors' Med Educ 44, (5) 449-458 , DOI Open access
2010 'Give juniors mini-PATs on the back' Clinical Pharmacist 2, (2) 63-65
2010 'Assessment of doctors’ consultation skills in the paediatric setting: the Paediatric Consultation Assessment Tool' Arch Dis Child 95, (5) , DOI
2010 'Assuring multisource feedback in a national assessment programme' Archive of Diseases of Child Health in press,
2010 'Difficult decisions for progress testing: how much and how often?' Med Teach 32, (6) 513-515 , DOI
2010 'Effective Feedback – the current state of science in health professional education' Medical Education 44, (1) 101-108
2010 'Give juniors mini-PATs on the back' Clinical Pharmacist 2, 1-3
2010 'Initial evaluation of EPSCALE, a rating scale that assesses the process of explanation and planning in the medical interview' Patient Education and Counseling , DOI
2010 'Medical Student to Junior Doctor: Today’s Experiences of Tomorrow’s Doctors' Med Educ 44, 449-458
2010 'The current state of the science in health professional education: effective feedback' Medical Education 44, 101-108 , DOI
2009 'European licensing examinations - The only way forward' Medical Teacher 31, (3) 215-216
2009 'European licensing examinations -The only way forward' Medical Teacher 31, (3) 5-6
2009 'Initial evaluation of the first year of the Foundation Assessment Programme' Med Educ 43, (1) 74-81 , DOI
2009 'Multisource Feedback (MSF): supporting professional development' BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL 206, (1) 1-1 , DOI
2009 'Patient Feedback for Medical Students' Clinical Teacher 6, 254-258
2009 'Re-certification for urologists: Is the SHEFFPAT questionnaire valid for assessing clinicians' 'relationships with patients'?' BJMSU 2, 100-104
2008 'What is the Academy of Medical Educators, and what can it do for doctors in training?' The Foundation Years 4, (8) 335-336 , DOI
2008 'Specialty-specific multi-source feedback: assuring validity, informing training' Med Educ 42, (10) 1014-1020 , DOI
2008 'Are national qualifying examinations a fair way to rank medical students?' BMJ 337, (7669) 546-547
2008 'mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool): a well kept secret?' Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 101, (6) 272-272 , DOI
2008 'mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool): a valid component of a national assessment programme in the UK?' Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13, (2) 181-192 , DOI
2008 'A district hospital assessing its doctors for re-licensure: can it work?' Medical Education 42, 359-363
2008 'Are national qualifying examinations a fair way to rank medical students? Yes' BMJ 337, (aug22_2) , DOI
2008 'Assessment of doctors’ consultation skills in the paediatric setting: the Paediatric Consultation Assessment Tool' Arch Dis Child
2008 'mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool): a well kept secret?' JRSM 101, (272-272)
2008 'What is the Academy of Medical Educators, and what can it do for doctors in training?' 4 8, (335-336)
2007 'Medical education research - Reasons to be cheerful' BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 335, (7617) 414-415 , DOI
2006 'Assessing procedural skills in context: exploring the feasibility of an Integrated Procedural Performance Instrument (IPPI)' Med Educ 40, (11) 1105-1114
2005 'Multi source feedback: development and practical aspects' The Clinical Teacher 2, (2) 77-81 , DOI
2005 'Assessment tools for foundation programmes--a practical guide' BMJ Career Focus 330, (7500)
2005 'Assessment tools for foundation programmes--a practical guide' BMJ Career Focus 330, (7500)
2005 'Multi source feedback using Sheffield Peer Review Assessment Tool (SPRAT) - development and practical aspects' Clinical Teacher 2, (2) 77-81
2005 'Use of SPRAT for peer review of paediatricians in training' BMJ 330, (7502) 1251-1253 Open access
2004 'Clinical management. Where medicine meets management. On reflection' Health Serv J 114, (5903) 26-27
2003 'Paediatric Sheffield Cambridge Calgary Consultation Assessment Tool' Work in Progress
Reviews
2010 'Impact of workplace based assessment on doctors' education and performance: a systematic review' BMJ 341, , DOI Open access
Letters
Chapters
2013 'Successful feedback: embedded in the culture' Oxford Textbook of Medical Education Oxford University Press 564-574 , DOI
2010 'Assessing learners' in Dornan T; Mann K; Scherpbier A; Spencer J Learning Medicine: A text linking theory and practice for graduate students and educators wanting to go beyond the basics Elsevier
2009 'Assessment in Foundation' in Forrest; Cooper N Essential Guide to Educational Supervision in the Foundation Programme Blackwells Publishing
2006 'How doctors are assessed' in Forrest K; Cramp P; Cooper N Essential Guide to Generic Skills London Blackwells Publishing BMJ Books.
'Assessments and Appraisal' Essential Guide to Educational Supervision in Postgraduate Medical Education Wiley-Blackwell 107-122 , DOI
Conference Papers
2008 'Quality assuring the Foundation Assessment Programme' 13th Ottawa Conference Melbourne, Australia
2006 'A National work based assessment programme - initial evaluation' 12th Ottawa Conference New York
Reports
2018 UMbRELLA: Evaluating the regulatory impacts of medical revalidation – final report. General Medical Council Publisher Site Open access
2017 Analysis of fitness to practise case data for the General Dental Council: Summary and Main Report. General Dental Council Publisher Site
2015 Revalidation: the evidence for revalidation and options for revalidation in the Australian context. Medical Board of Australia AHPRA Publisher Site Open access
2015 A literature review on the impact of licensing examinations for doctors in countries comparable to the UK. General Medical Council General Medical Council Publisher Site
2014 Revalidation: in practice: Shaping the future development of revalidation. Health Foundation Plymouth University Publisher Site
2014 Understanding the rise in Fitness to Practise complaints from members of the public. General Medical Council Publisher Site
2014 Patient and public involvement in medical revalidation. Revalidation Support Team
2013 Patient and public involvement in revalidation. Revalidation Support Team Plymouth University Publisher Site
2012 Developing an evidence base for the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) Test (Literature Review). General Medical Council General Medical Council Publisher Site
2006 Workplace Assessment Projects' Report. London Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Other Publications
EPSCALE.
Multisource Feedback Tool.
Why do patients with non-life threatening conditions bypass their local health centres? A cross-sectional survey at accident and emergency departments in Trinidad.