Editorial: Revalidation, CPD, and CEACCP

Error Preserving Correction for CPD and Bounded-Norm CPD

In CANDECOMP/PARAFAC tensor decomposition, degeneracy often occurs in some difficult scenarios, e.g., when the rank exceeds the tensor dimension, or when the loading components are highly collinear in several or all modes, or when CPD does not have an optimal solution. In such the cases, norms of some rank-1 terms become significantly large, and cancel each other. This makes algorithms getting ...

Revalidation of Canadian physicians.

We commend Wendy Levinson for her provocative suggestions regarding revalidation of Canadian physicians. We also applaud CMAJ for publishing views that are more demanding and supportive of meaningful external verification of Canadian physicians’ ongoing competence than those of the Canadian Medical Association. We agree with much of what Levinson has advocated, specifically the call for a reval...

Revalidation for general practitioners: randomised comparison of two revalidation models.

OBJECTIVE To compare two models of revalidation for general practitioners. DESIGN Randomised comparison of two revalidation models. SETTING Primary care in Tayside, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 66 Tayside general practitioners (principals and non-principals), 53 of whom completed the revalidation folders. Interventions Two revalidation models: a minimum criterion based model with revalidation a...

Standards and revalidation or recertification.

Patients want doctors who are competent, respectful, honest and able to communicate with them. This is patient-centred professionalism. In the United Kingdom, it is being embedded into practice by the General Medical Council (GMC) through medical regulation in a partnership between the public and doctors. The foundation is a national code of professional standards - Good Medical Practice - that...

Pom + Ebm = Cpd?