The Specialist Training Programme in Family
Medicine (STPFM) – Malta was drawn up by the Malta
College of Family Doctors in 2006, approved by Malta’s
Specialist Accreditation Committee, and launched in
2007 by the Primary Health Care Department and the
Malta College of Family Doctors. This article regarding
the work-based assessment of specialist training in family
medicine in Malta was prepared by consulting various
local / international documents and publications that
are related to general practice / family medicine and
its teaching, appraisal and assessment. Assessment of
family doctors should consider their actual performance
of different tasks in diverse settings of daily practice;
this is carried out on-site by direct observation of the
practitioner at the work-place (work-based assessment)
using different methods.peer-reviewe
