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Designed for trainees at or near the end of their programme, it targets complex virtual tasks relevant to Foundation Year 1 doctors, including reasoning, problem solving, and drug-related clinical decision making. 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It is intended primarily for medical students at or near the end of their training and is based on the competencies identified by the General Medical Council in Outcomes for graduates (2018) (originally published in Tomorrow’s Doctors (2009)) . The PSA is delivered as an on-line assessment. It assesses, as far as possible within the confines of a virtual environment, complex skills including powers of deduction and problem solving that are relevant to the work of Foundation (Year 1) doctors in the NHS.  \nThe assessment comprises eight sections, each containing a specific item style. There are either six or eight individual items in each section. The assessment offers a total of 200 marks and candidates are expected to complete it within a total of two hours of examination time (Figure 1) . The 8 item styles assess prescribing, prescription chart review, planning management, providing important information, drug calculation skills, adverse drug reactions, monitoring therapy and data interpretation. These are described in more detail below (Appendix A) and some examples of scenarios are included in a grid that maps the item styles to relevant clinical settings for a Foundation doctor (Appendix B) . They reflect not only the process of prescribing but also the related skills, judgement and knowledge required to review, advise and provide information about medicines. A sampling matrix (Appendix C) is completed for each assessment build to ensure that each assessment contains the correct number of items of each style and meets the required standard for coverage of clinical settings and high-risk drugs.  \nThe skills assessed by the item styles reflect the requirements of Outcomes for graduates (2018) (Appendix D), (referenced in Promoting excellence; standards for medical education and training (2015)(Appendix E)) and the Safe Prescribing Working Group recommendations about the competency requirements of all Foundation doctors (Appendix F) . The PSA has also been mapped to the Prescribing Competency Framework, aimed at helping all health professionals to be safe, effective prescribers.  \nFigure 1. Structure of the assessment  \nPWS  \nAppendix A Item styles  \nPRESCRIBING  \n• Reasoning and Judgement: Deciding on the most appropriate prescription (drug, dose, route and frequency) to write, based on the clinical circumstances and any supplementary information  \n• Measureable Action: Writing a safe and effective prescription for a single medicine using the documentation provided, to tackle a specific indication highlighted by the question  \n• This item style presents a clinical scenario followed by a request to prescribe a single appropriate medicine or intravenous fluid. It is distinct from other styles by the specific requirement to write a prescription on one of a variety of prescription forms. Typical scenarios involve the treatment of acute conditions (e.g. acute asthma, heart failure), chronic conditions (e.g. depression, reflux oesophagitis), and important symptoms such as pain. The candidate must exercise judgement when deciding between different drugs, different formulations, different routes, different doses, and different dose intervals. Prescriptions are expected to meet appropriate standards, they must be unambiguous and complete (approved name of drug, appropriate form, correct dose and route) . The duration of treatment (e.g. 7 , 14 or 28 days) is included in all general practice forms.  \n• There are eight Prescribing items in the assessment, each of which includes a single question requiring a single prescription to be written. Each item is worth 10 marks (5 for the drug choice, 5 for the choice of dose/route/frequency, making a total of 80 marks for this item style) .  \n• Th","cbCaifrTIduwcFm6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifrTIduwcFm6","pdf",609921,"English","# Assessment Overview\n## Purpose and Design\n## Structure, Marks, and Timing\n## Item Styles and Clinical Coverage\n# Appendix A: Item Styles\n## Prescribing\n## Prescription Review","[{\"question\":\"What is the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) designed to assess?\",\"answer\":\"It assesses knowledge, judgement, and skills related to prescribing medicines in the NHS, including complex prescribing-related decision making in an online virtual format.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the PSA structured in terms of sections, items, and total marks?\",\"answer\":\"The assessment comprises eight sections with specific item styles, using either six or eight individual items per section, totaling 200 marks with an overall completion time of two hours.\"},{\"question\":\"What item styles are included in the PSA?\",\"answer\":\"Item styles include prescribing, prescription chart review, planning management, providing important information, drug calculation skills, adverse drug reactions, monitoring therapy, and data interpretation, with detailed descriptions in Appendix A.\"}]","PSA - Blueprint - July 2025 | PDF"]