The move by the Medical Board of Australia to commence a conversation with the medical profession about revalidation reflects that patient-centred care is at the heart of good medical practice. Patients judge their doctors' commitment to them based on whether their individual interactions with doctors meet their needs. We argue that ensuring that doctors are continuing to perform at a level tha...

The research in this thesis addresses the subject of regression testing. Emphasis is placed on developing a technique for selective revalidation which can be used during software maintenance to analyse and retest only those parts of the program affected by changes. In response to proposed program modifications, the technique assists the maintenance programmer in assessing the extent of the prog...

AN NHS trust has set up a quality assurance panel and created an e-portfolio in a bid to ensure its nurses are prepared for the nursing regulator's revalidation model.

Following a series of serious misdemeanours by British doctors, the General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced a system of re-licensing called 'revalidation'. Annual medical appraisal forms an important cornerstone of the proposed system, but specific guidance is lacking on the content of appraisal for occupational physicians, and the kinds of evidence that they might bring to critical review...

Twelve years after it was first proposed by the General Medical Council (GMC), December 2012 sees the introduction of ‘revalidation’ for all doctors in the UK. This 5-yearly affirmation of fitness to practise builds on existing legislation assigning every doctor to a ‘responsible officer’ (RO) and laying out a set of expectations in relation to professional development and performance review. R...

Revalidation for all doctors in England, following the process defined in the Medical Appraisal Guide,1 finally started in December 2012 after ten years’ experience of developmental appraisal in the NHS. There has been significant debate about preserving the formative nature of the appraisal conversation in the context of the recent need for the appraiser to make explicit some of their professi...