Appointed External Examiner for The University of St Andrews School of Medicine

At the University of St Andrews School of Medicine The External Examiner will:-
• Participate in curriculum approval, including scrutinising and commenting on new module and programme proposals, and reviewing and providing written advice and approval on significant module and programme amendments;
• Participate in setting assessments, including approving the final versions of all end of module examination question papers and reviewing the totality of the set assessment for a module in relation to examinations and coursework;
• Participate in marking examination scripts and other assessments, through activities including reviewing grade/mark descriptors, samples of continuous assessment and examination scripts and consistency and standards of marks and grades, commenting on school marking strategies, approving grade conversion procedures, reviewing the method for assessing dissertations and projects, reviewing exceptional cases and approving the procedures employed for student peer assessment;
• Participate in monitoring the standard of assessment, marking and feedback procedures, providing feedback on the assessment outcomes and procedures on wider issues of quality assurance and enhancement, identifying anomalous marks and discussing those with Schools, monitoring any adjustment of the distribution of grades in modules and advising on particular problematic cases that cannot be resolved within the School;
• Reflect on the distribution of patterns of the classification data provided, if applicable;
• Complete and submit an annual report commenting on the appropriateness of the standards of the assessments that they have examined.