ABOUT
Built by two doctors and an engineer
Docrr is built by two doctors, Farai and Catherine, working through UK specialty applications themselves, plus an engineer who writes the code. It is not a company with a roadmap committee. What gets built next is mostly decided by what people ask for.
It exists because the self assessment is the one part of a specialty application you can actually plan for, and nobody tells you your score until it is too late to change it. The criteria are published, so Docrr puts them in front of you early enough to act on them.
Where the criteria come from
Every rubric in Docrr is taken from published national guidance: the self assessment frameworks issued for each recruitment round by Health Education England, NHS England and the royal colleges. We do not invent scoring criteria, and we cite the round each rubric was taken from. Rubrics are updated for each recruitment cycle and marked provisional until that year's guidance publishes.
Honest limitations
Docrr is a self assessment aid, not an authority. Always check your scores against the official guidance for your own recruitment round, because rubrics change every year and between nations.
- Your Docrr score is a self assessment, not a prediction of your official score. Assessors interpret evidence; we cannot.
- Some specialties publish only part of their scoring, so parts of a rubric can be recorded without being added up. Where that happens Docrr says so on the specialty itself.
- Rubrics change every year and can differ between the four nations. Each cycle's rubric stays marked provisional until that year's guidance publishes.
Tell us what to build
Missing your specialty, or spotted a figure that is out of date? Send us feedback, ideally with a link to the published guidance. That is genuinely how the roadmap gets decided.