ABSTRACT
In this article, we propose a new ‘appreciative’ attitude towards assessment, on two grounds. Firstly, in order to accommodate and benefit from diversity, in both medical practice and medical education; and secondly in order to promote critical thinking, self awareness and capability in trainees more generally. Appreciative assessment requires a dialogic approach – an approach which is already well established in the context of educational supervision, but which we argue is just as applicable to assessment.
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