Summative DOPS will become available on JETS once all certification pathway criteria are met.
When a trainee is considered by the trainer to be ready to sit the DOPS assessments, those assessments (four observed case judgments) can be carried out in any combination of ways - provided that they fulfil the following criteria:
- Minimum of two assessors
- Minimum of two cases
- Minimum of four DOPS (observations and judgments)
- All four DOPS are completed within one month of the first DOPS
- No assessor is the trainee's current primary endoscopic trainer
So this could result in the four DOPS being completed as below (or a variation of the below):
- as a 2 x 2 process simultaneously = 2 assessors over 2 cases
- as a 2 x 2 process sequentially = 2 assessors over 4 cases
- as a 2 x 1 x 1 process = 3 assessors over 4 cases
- as a 1 x 1 x1 x 1 process = 4 assessors over 4 cases
- as a 3 x 1 process sequentially = 2 assessors over 3 cases
A trainee's primary trainer or a trainer who has submitted an appraisal on the trainee within the last 12 months cannot sign off on the trainee's summative DOPS forms.
All DOPS must meet the criteria; if one does not, then the DOPS process (four observed case judgements) must start again.