Completing the Self-assessment and preparing the supportive evidence.
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The information presented is accurate at the time of publication.
You will be required to complete a self-assessment as part of your Oriel Occupational Medicine application.
As part of the application process, you must upload supporting evidence to justify the self-assessment achievements you claim on your application form by the specified deadline. If you fail to upload your supporting evidence for any domain, you will not be awarded any points in that domain.
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept late submissions of evidence, therefore any evidence submitted after the deadline will be disregarded and will not attract any points. Guidance will be available in Oriel on how to upload documents and it is imperative that you adhere to this guidance to enable your evidence to be verified.
When completing the self-assessment, please note the following.
Completed achievements only
You can only claim a score based on achievements completed by the point of submission of your application.
Scores not adjustable after submission
You cannot submit evidence or adjust your scores after your application is submitted. You should review your scores before you submit your application to amend any mistakes as you will not be able to amend any errors after you have submitted your application.
You will also not be able to amend your scores if you gained an achievement after the submission of your application.
Overclaiming
Your self-scores will be verified by a senior Occupational Health Physician (OHP) in accordance with the criteria below (see table 3).
If a candidate blatantly or persistently tries to gain an unfair advantage by over-claiming scores for and/or exaggerates their achievements, it will be taken extremely seriously.
This could lead to the applicant being deemed not appointable, or, in very serious cases, could be reported as a probity matter to the GMC; however, this is a very rare outcome and only considered in cases of overt cheating.
Word limitations
There will be a text box for each domain where you will be required to add text to explain why you believe you have met the criteria for that domain.
Each section will have a maximum word count, detailed in the table below, however, we advise that you keep your explanations as short as possible to justify the selection as the main justification for each score is the evidence you submit.
The Panel will have limited time to check application forms and the more succinct you can be about your achievement, the more straightforward it will be for them to review your folder.
Table 1 - Maximum word count by domain
| Scoring domain |
Word count |
|
Scoring domain
Postgraduate qualifications
|
Word count
100
|
|
Scoring domain
Prizes and awards
|
Word count
100
|
|
Scoring domain
Clinical governance
|
Word count
250
|
|
Scoring domain
Academic research
|
Word count
250
|
|
Scoring domain
Teaching
|
Word count
250
|
|
Scoring domain
Academic publications
|
Word count
250
|
|
Scoring domain
Presentations (excluding audit presentations)
|
Word count
250
|
|
Scoring domain
Posters
|
Word count
250
|
|
Scoring domain
Self-reflective practice
|
Word count
300
|
Submitting Evidence
After the application closing date, you will be required to upload supporting evidence to justify the self-assessment scores you have claimed on your application form.
You should finalise and plan to have your documents ready to upload soon after your application submission.
We will write to you soon after the application closing date to confirm the method and upload window for submission of your evidence. However, you are advised to prepare documents in advance so this process can be completed quickly.
Your self-scores will be verified by experienced OHPs against the evidence you submit and the criteria below (table 3).
To ensure a smooth process, please ensure you follow the tips below when uploading your evidence, because disorganised or poorly presented documents may result in your scores not being verified and granted:
- You must upload supporting evidence to justify the self-assessment scores you claim in your application. Failure to upload your supporting evidence may result in your scores not being verified and granted
- Only evidence supporting each of the claimed achievements should be uploaded. There is no requirement for you to upload any additional documents or achievements if they are not related to the domain where you are claiming a score
- Please include enough evidence to demonstrate achievements which justify your self score. Submitting multiple items of evidence, for the same domain (unless you are asked to present more than one example) will not increase your score. For examples:
- If you have completed more than one national presentation, there is no requirement to include all of them and one is sufficient
- If you have written a book, you do not need to upload the whole book - just the relevant credit page or the citation is sufficient
- In domains where more than one item of evidence attracts a higher score for example, Academic research, two or three items of evidence will be sufficient
Evidence of attending training courses should not be included unless they relate to a specific score. Specifically, attending a course does not attract any score under teaching (except “Train the Trainer” courses) or reflection.
To receive a score for the Teaching domain, you require evidence of being involved in teaching and not attending as an attendee or student. To receive a score under Reflection, we require evidence of your reflection on the learning from the course.
You must ensure individual identifiable data including patients or students you might have taught etc. are redacted as this may result in breach of confidentiality and of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Serious breaches may result in taking further action
Any documentation in any other languages than English must be fully translated formally by an approved service into English, otherwise the evidence will be disregarded and you will not be awarded any points for that evidence
You will not be able to submit further evidence once the Evidence Upload window closes and only the evidence you uploaded during the specific window will be taken into account as part of your application
Please do not submit photos of yourself presenting, teaching or receiving an award as we cannot verify the individual in the photo and, more importantly, you should submit the relevant evidence to confirm the achievement for example, certificate of an award
In general, the same evidence will not be scored in more than one domain. For example, if you have completed an audit, presented it as slide set and then as a poster, you will be only scored in domain 3 under Clinical Governance, but not under domain 7 Presentations or domain 8 Posters. There are, nonetheless, occasions that similar evidence might be considered under two domains at the discretion of the verifying OHP for example, published research can be used for domain 4 Academic Research and domain 6 Academic Publications
File types and naming – you should follow the standards below to ensure your evidence is presented correctly and reviewed by the verifier:
- Clearly named files with the scoring domain name appearing first, followed by a description of the document; for example, Academic research – title of journal or the paper
- Aim to use standardised file types which can be opened by any user regardless of the software they have available. You should aim to convert all files to PDF, JPEG or PNG format
- Ensure each document is contained within a single file - for example, do not take a photo of each page of a publication and upload them as separate files
Suggested evidence
You must provide evidence to support each of the scores that you awarded yourself in the self-assessment part of the application form. Whilst it is not possible to provide an exhaustive list of acceptable evidence, table 2 below provides examples of acceptable evidence but also evidence that will not count towards score in a domain.
Table 2 - Suggested evidence
Postgraduate Training in other specialties
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Evidence of completion of specialist or GP training including CCT, CESR or equivalent evidence.
Copy of the GMC register confirming your name on the specialist or the GP register.
Copy of ARCP (Annual Review of Competency Progression) or RITA (Record of In-Training Assessment) outcome.
Completed and signed Certificate of Completion of Common Professional Capabilities (CCCPC).
Postgraduate Medical Qualifications
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Copy of Dip Occ Med certificate or letter from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine confirming award of the same.
Membership of or passing other colleges’ exams do NOT count toward scores in this domain.
Prizes and Awards
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Copy letter from the Medical School or the qualification body.
Copy of certificate of the prize.
Letters of gratitude / thank you and awards and prizes before entering higher education do not count toward score in this domain.
Clinical Governance
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Copy of a full audit report with clear demonstration of your involvement and role in the audit.
A presentation handout of the audit can be considered as a substitute as long as it covers all headings of an audit report and your involvement and role in the audit.
Other quality improvement projects such as service evaluation can be considered as a substitute as long as they cover typical headings of a QI project report and your involvement and role in the project Copy of policies or SOPs where you have developed or significantly contributed to their development, clearly demonstrating your role.
Copy of minutes of relevant meetings you have chaired.
Your being involved in development of a policy or attending a meeting with no significant contribution do not count toward score in this domain.
Academic Research
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Original MD or other qualification certificate that requires a dissertation or thesis.
Letter from research supervisor confirming your role.
Copy of research project and clear explanation of your role.
Teaching
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Copy of certificate of a teaching qualification.
Evidence of involvement in a teaching programme as a teacher for exampe, a letter from the course organiser, programme of the day.
Evidence of your delivery of teaching including feedback received.
Attendance at a course or simple presentation of a topic without a teaching element will not count toward scores in this domain.
Academic publications
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Copy of full text of publication(s) in a peer reviewed journal underlining your name.
A letter from the other author to confirm your role if you are joint first author.
Abstracts, links to the publication, full research project (does this mean doing a full project with no evidence that a publication resulted?), slides of a presentation of research project do not count toward scores in this domain.
Presentations (excluding audit presentations)
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Copy of presentation on a medical or health and safety topic (slide deck) AND a copy of the event programme clearly demonstrating your name as the presenter. If there is no programme for the event, you should provide a formal letter from the organising body or the chair of the event.
The relevance of the subject will be decided by the verifying OH physician.
Posters, presentations of an audit or quality improvement project, presentations for the purpose of teaching, presentations without an event programme or accompanying letter or on a subject that is not related to a medical or health and safety topic will NOT count toward scores in this domain.
Posters
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Copy of posters on an academic subject or another subject related to medicine or health and safety topic.
Promotional posters for example, to introduce a service or to promote healthy life style will NOT count toward score in this domain.
Self-reflective practice
Examples of acceptable/unacceptable evidence
Evidence of reflection on an event, for example, following attendance at an OH meeting, visiting an OH service, attending CPD events or receiving a complaint.
Example of a reflection Include, but not limited to a description of the event, positive / negatives elements, learning, change of practice and actions.
Please note you must submit evidence of the reflection under this section. Evidence of attendance at or being involved in an event without reflection will not be sufficient on its own and will not count toward a score in this domain.
Self-assessment Scoring Criteria
You are asked to self-score your application based on specific criteria presented in table 3 below.
Please read the table carefully and ensure you match your achievement as closely as possible to the claimed score. You should avoid under or over-scoring to the best of your ability.
Table 3 - Self-assessment Scoring Criteria
The tables below include the self-assessment domains, the statements candidates choose and the number of points for each statement.
1 - Postgraduate medical qualifications
- DOccMed
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
2 - Prizes and awards
- You were awarded a Distinction during your undergraduate medical training or post grad qualification
(score: 2)
- You were awarded a Prize or Merit during your undergraduate medical training or post grad qualification
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
3 - Clinical governance
- Any of the following:
- Evidence of chairing a national committee relevant to medicine or health and safety with various external stakeholders OR,
- Evidence of leading on developing a national policy relevant to medicine or health and safety, including confirmation from the body / organisation which owns the policy. OR,
- For audit or QI projects, ALL the following should be met:
- You have led a significant postgraduate audit or QI project AND,
- You significantly contributed to ALL aspects of the project AND,
- The project findings resulted in making recommendations to improve AND,
- There is at least a second round of the project to close the loop AND,
- The result was presented at least at a local meeting
(score: 4)
- Any of the following:
- Evidence of chairing a regional committee / or significant contribution to a national committee relevant to medicine or health and safety with various external stakeholders OR,
- Evidence of leading on developing a regional policy / or significant contribution to a national policy relevant to medicine or health and safety including confirmation from the body / organisation which owns the policy. OR,
- For audit or QI projects, ALL the following should be met:
- You significantly contributed to more than one aspect of the project excluding data collection at post grad level
- The project findings resulted in making recommendations to improve
- There is at least a second round of the project to close the loop
- The result was presented at least at a local meeting
(score: 3)
- Any of the following:
- Evidence of chairing a local (i.e. hospital, employer level) committee / or significant contribution to a regional committee relevant to medicine or health and safety with various external stakeholders OR,
- Evidence of leading on developing a local (i.e. hospital, employer level) policy / or significant contribution to a regional policy relevant to medicine or health and safety including confirmation from the body / organisation which owns the policy. OR,
- For audit or QI projects, ALL the following should be met:
- You significantly contributed to at least one aspect of the project, apart from data collection, at post grad level OR led an undergrad project
- The project findings resulted in making recommendations to improve
- The result was presented at least at a local meeting
(score: 2)
- Any of the following:
- Evidence of significant contribution to a local (i.e. hospital, employer level) committee relevant to medicine or health and safety OR,
- Evidence of significant contribution to developing a local (i.e. hospital, employer level) policy OR,
- For audit or QI projects, evidence that you contributed to at least one aspect of the project, apart from data collection, at post grad level OR significantly contributed to an undergrad project
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
4 - Academic research
- Completion of a PhD or MD with original research
(score: 4)
- Any of the following:
- Completion of an MSc with original research OR,
- You led a research project relevant to medicine or health and safety and significantly contributed to ALL aspects of the project
(score: 3)
- You have significantly contributed to at least one aspect of a research project apart from data collection at postgraduate level
(score: 2)
- Any of the following:
- You have contributed to at least one aspect of a research project, apart from data collection, at postgraduate level OR,
- You have made a significant contributed to a research project at undergrad level
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
5 - Teaching
- You have a recognised qualification in teaching, for example, a post graduate certificate, Diploma, or Masters in Medical Education
(score: 4)
- Any of the following:
- You have attended a "Teaching the Teachers" course OR,
- You regularly delivered formal teaching (e.g. lectures) at a recognised course OR,
- You have organised a teaching programme at national level
(score: 3)
- Any of the following:
- You delivered occasional formal teaching at a course OR,
- You have organised a teaching programme for healthcare professionals or healthcare students at a regional level
(score: 2)
- Any of the following:
- You have carried out informal teaching (including nurses or medical students) OR,
- You have organised a teaching programme at a regional level
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
6 - Academic publications
- You am first author in more than one peer-reviewed publication
(score: 4)
- Any of the following:
- You are the first author in one peer-reviewed postgraduate publication OR,
- You are listed as an author in more than one peer-reviewed postgraduate publication
(score: 3)
- Any of the following:
- You are listed as an author in one peer-reviewed postgraduate publication OR,
- You are the first author in more than one peer-reviewed undergraduate publication
(score: 2)
- You are listed as an author in one peer-reviewed undergraduate publication
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
7 - Presentations (excluding audit presentations)
- You have presented at an international meeting on a medical or health and safety topic
(score: 4)
- You have presented at a, national meeting on a medical or health and safety topic
(score: 3)
- You have presented at a regional meeting on a medical or health and safety topic
(score: 2)
- You have presented at a local meeting on a medical or health and safety topic
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
8 - Posters
- You have presented a poster at a national or international meeting on an academic subject or another subject related to medicine or a health and safety topic
(score: 2)
- You have presented a poster at a regional or local meeting on an academic subject or another subject related to medicine or a health and safety topic
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
9 - Self-reflective practice
- Evidence of full reflection covering all aspects of reflective practice on more than one occasion, at least one of which was relating to an aspect of occupational health
(score: 4)
- Evidence of full reflection covering all aspects of reflective practice on one occasion relating to an aspect of occupational health
(score: 3)
- Evidence of reflection covering some aspects of reflective practice on at least one occasion relating to an aspect of occupational health
(score: 2)
- Evidence of reflection covering some aspects of reflective practice on at least one occasion
(score: 1)
- None of the above
(score: 0)
Page last reviewed: 18 September 2026
Next review due: 18 September 2028
