Portfolios, appraisal, revalidation, and all that: a user's guide for consultants

Portfolios, appraisal, revalidation, and all that: a user's guide for consultants.

From April 2005 all doctors in the UK will be expected to be able to demonstrate their fitness to practice as part of the GMC revalidation procedures. The revalidation process is explicitly linked to the consultant appraisal process implemented in 2001. Central to both processes is the development of a folder (portfolio) of supporting evidence. Many consultants have no experience of developing ...

Appraisal and revalidation--guidance for consultants preparing for relicensing and specialist recertification.

Appraisal makes for effective revalidation (official).

Editor—The General Medical Council recently held a “stakeholders’ conference” on the revalidation of doctors, at which participants reportedly went along with the educationally improbable proposition that formative assessments (“appraisals”) can be summated to provide robust formal revalidation decisions: “five satisfactory appraisals equals revalidation.” Now, reminiscent of the Vatican’s 17th...

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...

Peer appraisal of consultants--the way forward?

The major shortcomings of self-regulation of the medical profession occur at local level. Doctors may have their suspicions about a colleague’s performance, but these suspicions are generally rooted in hospital gossip rather than having any sound basis in audit or other available data. Even medical or lay managers have little if any evidence which they can use to take action. If this situation ...