There have been two in-depth consultations with all UK medical schools to identify and evaluate the current methods of calculating quartiles, and the range of assessments – type and number - used by the different medical schools.

A pilot looking at a proposed method of calculating the Educational Performance Measure was carried out in August 2010 and the exercise demonstrated the complexity of the proposed framework. In order to address the issues, an EPM Task and Finish Group was set up.

The EPM will be piloted as part of the Parallel Recruitment Exercise during the 2011/2012 academic year.