Re: [Bodington-developers] Questionnaire Functionality

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

Brian Peter Clark wrote:

>This is all part of my lifelong mission to speak out against and fight the misuse
>and abuse of authority wherever I find it.
>  
>
I'm in favour of your mission and I hope you keep it up. However, 
personally I think we would make better use of our powers of persuasion 
if we know the motivation behind wanting to implement compulsory 
anonymous questionnaires. The best option for changing it is to suggest 
an alternative, but we can't do that unless we know where the idea is 
coming from.

I can speculate - probably the main thing the GMC want is to make it 
compulsory for medical schools to give their students course 
satisfaction questionnaires so they can complain if the course is crap. 
Then someone suggested that the medical schools might rig the 
questionnaire to stop the students from using it (like not tell them 
there is one). (Much like the joke in Hitchhikers about the planning 
proposals being in the cellar of the council offices etc. etc.) So to 
counter this the GMC decides to require not only that a questionnaire is 
offered to the students but that they must fill it in, working on the 
theory that the only guaranteed accessible and well advertised 
questionnaire is one with a 100% completion rate.

If this is the origin of the regulation then I would suggest to the GMC 
that they change the rule so that the medical schools must tell them the 
number of students who responded and if it is pityfully small grill the 
medical school on how they admnistered the questionnaire. Better still - 
get the GMC to set up an on-line questionnaire on their own web site and 
advertise its availability to the students nationwide so the course 
satisfaction information goes direct to the GMC. Question 1) did your 
medical school provide adequate opportunities to comment on the quality 
of your course? Some student might even volunteer not to be anonymous so 
they can be asked to participate in further discussions etc. if they 
know the questionnaire isn't be run by their own school they might be 
more forthcoming.

So, yes I'd like to say 'i'm aggin it' but I'd also like to be able to 
supply a good alternative too.

Jon