The College of Optometrists

The College of Optometrists has today announced that the first cohort of trainees has this week successfully completed the Scheme for Registration that replaces the Professional Qualifying Examination Part 2 (PQE2) as the route to registration for UK trained optometrists.

 

Following the meeting of an Assessment Board earlier this week 58% of trainees who sat the  Final Assessment during July, learnt of their success on 3 August. The Scheme for Registration is an holistic approach to the training and assessment of postgraduate pre registration trainees, incorporating continuous assessment in the workplace by College trained assessors and a one day Final Assessment under examination conditions. The Assessment Board considered all of the results from the first sitting of the Final Assessment in conjunction with trainees’ Work Based Assessment reports before deciding on whether each trainee was safe to practise.

 

The College has sent the results to all trainees and, for the first time ever, made their results available online. 

Commenting on the results, Chief Executive Bryony Pawinska said, “I am delighted by these results, which represent the culmination of hard work by trainees, their Supervisors, Assessors, Examiners and members of the Assessment Board, not to mention College staff and Council Members. We learnt a great deal from the pilot of the Scheme for Registration during 2004/05, which we were able to use in implementing the Scheme in full this year. And we have continued to learn throughout this year and during the Final Assessment itself so that we will be in a position to improve further as we move forward with the Scheme. I am confident that the Scheme for Registration will go from strength to strength over years to come”.