CCA (previously OSCE) Examiners

During the 2021 academic year, the OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) was replaced with the CCA (Clinical Competency Assessment).

These assessments take place at the Stopford Building for Year 1 and 2. If you have a substantive contract with the University, this activity can be recognised within your teaching allocation.

CCAs take place at each of the four clinical education campus sites, for students in Years 3-5:

• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe
• Salford Royal Foundation Trust
• Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust – Preston

If you are interested in examining for Year 3-5 exams at one of these locations, you must be based within our NHS partner organisations/affiliated General Practices and complete one of our Examiner training workshops available free of charge for CTs, STs, consultants and GPs. We ask that you are also involved with teaching our students, for example, as a Clinical Placement Supervisor, or intend to in the near future, before signing up to a training workshop.

If you are interested in Year 1 and 2 CCAs, which take place centrally on campus within our Stopford Building, and you are a clinician (FY2 equivalent or above), based within our partner NHS organisations/affiliated GP practice and teach/support our students in some capacity, please contact us at medical.exams@manchester.ac.uk.