BACKGROUND Medical revalidation is the process by which all licensed doctors are legally required to demonstrate that they are up to date and fit to practise in order to maintain their licence. Revalidation was introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2012, constituting significant change in the regulation of doctors. The governing body, the General Medical Council (GMC), envisages that revalid...

Objective To describe the implementation of medical revalidation in healthcare organisations in the United Kingdom and to examine reported changes and impacts on the quality of care. Design A cross-sectional online survey gathering both quantitative and qualitative data about structures and processes for medical revalidation and wider quality management in the organisations which employ or cont...

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...

PURPOSE Previous research found professionalism and regulation to be competing discourses when plans for medical revalidation in the United Kingdom were being developed in 2011. The purpose of this study was to explore how these competing discourses developed and how the perceived purposes of revalidation evolved as the policy was implemented. METHOD Seventy-one interviews with 60 UK policy m...

BACKGROUND All general practitioners (GPs) are expected to have an appraisal from 2002 and the first cohort will experience revalidation in 2005. Although there is a link between appraisal and revalidation, this has yet to be clarified. OBJECTIVE To investigate the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of GPs towards revalidation and appraisal. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Lincolnshi...

Regular appraisal and revalidation are now a routine part of professional life for doctors in the UK. For British-trained psychiatrists working abroad (in either development/humanitarian or academic fields) this is a cause of insecurity, as most of the processes of revalidation are tailored to those working in the standard structures of the National Health Service. This article explores the deg...

BACKGROUND UK revalidation plans for doctors include obtaining multisource feedback from patient and colleague questionnaires as part of the supporting information for appraisal and revalidation. AIM To investigate GPs' and appraisers' views of using multisource feedback data in appraisal, and of the emerging links between multisource feedback, appraisal, and revalidation. DESIGN AND SETTIN...

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 ...

BACKGROUND A portfolio of supporting information (SI) reflecting a doctor's entire medical practice is now a central aspect of UK appraisal for revalidation. Medical revalidation, introduced in 2012, is an assessment of a doctor's competence and passing results in a five yearly license to practice medicine. It assesses of a doctor's professional development, workplace performance and reflection...