Verifying your trainee's consultations

Before your trainee can submit consultations for assessment, they need to be verified by you.

To avoid any delay in submitting consultations for the exam, your trainee will probably share more consultations with you than they need to submit. 

What do I need to do?

When a trainee shares a consultation with you, you'll get an email from us. This contains a button to view the consultation securely on FourteenFish. If you don't already have a FourteenFish account, you'll be able to create one.

TIP: You'll need to go through the two-factor authentication process in order to view the recordings. Because of this, you may want to save up a few consultations to verify in one sitting. Once you have gone through the two-factor authentication process, you can view other consultations for up to an hour before you need to do it again.

Once you view the consultation, just follow the instructions to verify it. You can see more detail about the statements you'll be asked to agree, further down this article.

What about previously shared consultations?

If your trainee shared consultations with you before 18th June, you won't get a new email about them. Instead, you need to go into your FourteenFish account, and click the Recorded consultations area on your Dashboard.

Verification statements

You can watch or listen to as much of the consultation as needed, in order to be able to agree to the verification statements. You don't need to go through the whole consultation – just the first 30 seconds is usually enough.

The statements are different depending on whether the consultation was performed via FourteenFish, or uploaded from an external source. The first two statements are always the same.

Recordings performed on FourteenFish

1. I confirm that the doctor in this recording is [trainee name]
2. I confirm that to the best of my knowledge the patient in this recording is a real patient

Uploaded recordings with verbal patient consent

1. I confirm that the doctor in this recording is [trainee name]
2. I confirm that to the best of my knowledge the patient in this recording is a real patient
3. I confirm that the the patient has consented to having the consultation recorded and this is audible in the recording

Uploaded recordings with attached evidence of patient consent

1. I confirm that the doctor in this recording is [trainee name]
2. I confirm that to the best of my knowledge the patient in this recording is a real patient
3. I confirm that the trainee has attached satisfactory evidence below of the patient consenting to having the consultation recorded

The attachment(s) the trainee added when they uploaded the recording will then appear as links below...

Consultations will appear as verified

Once you have verified a consultation, it will appear with a green tick in the list of consultations that have been shared with you.

Further details are available in the audit log for the consultation.

What if the trainee has more than one supervisor?

You may occasionally find that a consultation has been shared with you, that has already been verified. This will be because the trainee has shared it with another supervisor who has already done the verification.

The verification process only needs to be done once per consultation. You can see who performed the verification process in the audit log for the consultation.

Giving the trainee feedback on the consultation

Once the consultation has been verified, you can use the commenting feature to give feedback to the trainee.