Supporting physicians through standards for appraisal and revalidation
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Supporting physicians through standards for appraisal and revalidation.
lished by Royal Charter in 1518, it was explicitly to monitor, maintain and enforce standards of physicians working within seven miles of the city of London. In those early days the College was the licensing body with the power to exclude, indeed imprison, impostors and quacks. While its raison d’être has remained standards of clinical care, the emphasis has been on ensuring this through the ed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-5-395