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Fieldwork Evaluation Revisited
David Millard qualified in medicine at the University of Birmingham. After military service he trained as a psychiatrist and was for some years a consultant at a Birmingham psychiatric hospital. Since 1970 he has been teaching social workers as a lecturer in Applied Social Studies at the University of Oxford. He is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the Warneford Hospital.
Summary
This paper is a sequel to a previously published description of the use of a viva voca examination in the evaluation of students' fieldwork. On the basis of three year's experience discussion centres on the nature of the examiners' judgments, the contribution of fieldwork teachers' reports, and the place of case reports in the procedure.