Response to Arshad's letter on the assessment of professional behaviour in undergraduate medical education

Editor – We would like to thank our colleague for his letter concerning our paper.1 The concern about the transferability of our findings outside the Netherlands represents a very important issue. Your correspondents main reason for concern is that the Dutch definition of professional behaviour, and consequently the corresponding assessment criteria, differs from that in the UK. However, the focus of our study was not the content of the assessment criteria, but rather the principle of actively applying criteria in formative peer assessment. [...