Tensions in postgraduate training: meaningful engagement or 'tick-box' supervision?

Engagement with workplace based assessment (WBA) is the plea of the stakeholder; striving for meaningful educational dialogues and early detection of difficulty, and moving away from a tick-box, 'gaming' approach to these assessments. However, ask a postgraduate trainee about their last WBA encounter, and it may come as no surprise that they believed their assessor failed to allocate adequate time to observe them or to provide quality feedback, and that they lacked sufficient awareness of the WBA requirements.