Revalidation: A world first in medical regulation

Revalidation: A world first in medical regulation

The revalidation of doctors was introduced in the UK in December 2012, and means that all licensed doctors must demonstrate periodically that they are up-to-date and fit to practise. Regular appraisals, based on the General Medical Council's core guidance for doctors, will be used by responsible officers to evaluate a doctor's practice based on six types of supporting information, including fee...

Revalidation: cracks at first, now chasms.

On 8 June 2005, Professor Mike Pringle gave the 2005 John Fry Fellowship Lecture, organised by the Nuffield Trust in London. He called it ‘Revalidation of doctors: the credibility challenge’. The audience was, in sections, invited and alert, great and good, knighted and elevated, yet some were fidgety and irritated. At the end, we were all stunned in part, taken aback at times, but on the whole...

The First ALS Ambulance in the World

The survival rate of medical emergencies depends highly on the intervention time and prompt medical care on the scene. The idea of “bring the doctor and medical equipment to the spot” was born in Hungary in the mid-1950s. The demand for advanced life support was a consequence of the fast growth of industry and traffic. It is worthwhile to review the development of the idea, the therapeutic meth...

First World Conference on Medical Education

Insightful practice: a reliable measure for medical revalidation

BACKGROUND Medical revalidation decisions need to be reliable if they are to reassure on the quality and safety of professional practice. This study tested an innovative method in which general practitioners (GPs) were assessed on their reflection and response to a set of externally specified feedback. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 60 GPs and 12 GP appraisers in the Tayside region of Scotland, UK....