Clinical Competency Achievement Tool (ClinCAT)
- Erica Marsom
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Summary
This article contains information on how to complete a Clinical Competency Achievement Tool (ClinCAT) as Professional Practice Assessment Tool as a collaborative Learning experience.
What is the Clinical Competency Achievement Tool (ClinCAT)?
The ClinCAT is a tool used to facilitate peer evaluation of a pharmacist’s performance through a snapshot of their day-to-day practice. It can be used to facilitate an individual pharmacist's practice by identifying strengths and areas for improvement in their individual systems and processes and general professional development needs.
Completion of the ClinCAT requires a trained evaluator. The ClinCAT evaluator acts as the collaborator for this LX. The main outcome of the interaction between pharmacist and collaborator should be to promote the pharmacist to engage in self-reflection of their current practice.
Clinical Competency Achievement Tool (ClinCAT) Process
Prepare
Engage
Reflect
The pharmacist arranges a time suitable with the collaborator (trained ClinCAT evaluator) to engage in the ClinCAT process. The pharmacist and collaborator should also confirm the practice recognition level and clinical setting/topic that the pharmacist is currently working towards.
The pharmacist completes the self-assessment component of the ‘Clinical Competency Achievement Tool for Australian Pharmacists’.
The collaborator (trained ClinCAT evaluator) observes the pharmacist for 1 to 2 hours during a period that reflects their most common professional role.
The collaborator (trained ClinCAT evaluator) completes the evaluation assessment component of the ‘Clinical Competency Achievement Tool for Australian Pharmacists’.
The pharmacist and collaborator (trained ClinCAT evaluator) complete the reflection and feedback session and use this discussion to complete a professional development plan (final two pages of the achievement tool). Ideally this should happen within a reasonable time after the observation period to ensure both pharmacist and collaborator can recall key events.
The total time for a ClinCAT should take between 2 to 3 hours.
Collaborator
The collaborator must be a credentialed ClinCAT evaluator.
Practice Recognition Level
The Professional Practice Assessment Tool Learning Experience is mapped to Domain 1, 2, 4 & 5 of the National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia 2016.
Please refer to the ANZCAP recognition descriptors article for the further guidance on markers of performance for each ANZCAP recognition level. The pharmacist and collaborator should indicate on the learning experience tool which of the three levels of practice recognition (resident, register, consultant) they are currently practicing at or a candidate for. Please note that not all the domain 1, 2, 4 & 5 indicators listed in this document may be relevant to this Learning Experience.
Forms and Templates
The pharmacist and trained evaluator will complete the ‘Clinical Competency Achievement Tool for Australian Pharmacists’.
The completed ‘Clinical Competency Achievement Tool for Australian Pharmacists’ should be uploaded in the Supporting Evidence section of the Professional Practice Assessment tool LX available on the ANZCAP digital platform.
For further step by step instructions on how to do this please refer to the How to complete a Learning Experience article.
Please note that for the LX to become validated the candidate must complete all sections marked with an asterisk (*) and the collaborator must document their involvement via the electronic collaborator declaration process.