Workshop Facilitators: Dr James Kwan, Dr Faith Chia, Dr Wee Khoon Ng, A/Prof Dong Haur Phua and Dr Tracy Tan

Groups such as progression review committees or clinical competency committees are tasked with making high stakes summative decisions in undergraduate and postgraduate health professions education. Such committees are responsible for ensuring that learners have met the requirements to progress to the next stage of their training and that graduates of their programs are ready for appropriate levels of independent practice. They meet at regular intervals, review assessment information about individual learners from multiple sources, synthesise this information to judge their performance against a set of performance standards, document the rationale for the decision, provide feedback to learners and implement a remediation action plan if appropriate. Despite the advantages of group decision making in sharing information to make informed decisions, monitoring learner performance over time and early identification of struggling learners, there is wide variability in group processes and the quality of decisions being made. Therefore, it is imperative that members of such groups undergo the necessary training to improve the quality and defensibility of high stakes progression decisions for individual learners, as we