Revalidation: a professional imperative

Revalidation: a professional imperative.

Revalidation: a professional imperative GPs could be forgiven for expressing some scepticism about the introduction of revalidation. Substantive proposals for the reform of medical regulation were put forward by the General Medical Council (GMC) in 1997 1 and criteria against which GPs performance could be judged were first published by the RCGP in 2002. 2 It is 3 years since the Chief Medical ...

Professional Support, London: the professional development unit supporting practitioner well-being, refreshment, remediation and revalidation

London' s Professional Support Unit (PSU) was launched in April 2012 at a time when changes and financial pressures across the health service were placing considerable demand on the medical and dental workforce. At the same time the infrastructure to support medical revalidation was established. The PSU provides developmental support to clinicians across London in all career grades and speciali...

The Cultural Imperative for Professional Military Education and Leader Development

A REVALIDATION PRIMER Authors

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...