Revalidation: swallow hard

Switching to the Euro: still hard to swallow.

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...

Physician revalidation in Europe.

Despite the increasing attention on patient mobility, there remains a lack of European-level interest in assuring the sustained competence of health professionals. Specifically, the existing European legal framework fails to recognise the introduction of periodic revalidation and requirements to participate in continuing professional development in some countries. This study shows that the defi...

Business approaches to quality improvement: why they are hard for the NHS to swallow.