Regulation and revalidation of doctors: Response from the General Medical Council

What can Doctors Expect from the new Medical Council Guidelines?

This summer the Medical Council published the new Draft Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Medical Professionals for consultation and the final version is expected to be published shortly. The new guide will set out the principles of good professional practice that all doctors registered with the Medical Council in Ireland are expected to follow under the four pillars of professional ...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Erasures and suspensions from the General Medical Council (U.K.).

The patterns of erasure and suspension in the UK (GMC) have recently been analysed 1 . The findings are of interest to all practising doctors. It would appear that certain groups of doctors are more likely to be subject to the Council’s scrutiny than others. A total of 790 doctors (0.35%) are either erased or suspended. In terms of gender 86% are men and 14% are women, men are 4 times more li...

Putting public confidence first: doctors, precautionary suspension, and the General Medical Council.

Over the past ten years, many professions in the UK have acquired farreaching interim powers to suspend their members from practice before any complaints against them have been proved. In the case of the medical profession, the modern incarnation of these powers can be traced to the wave of reactive regulation triggered by Dr Harold Shipman’s convictions for the murder of fifteen of his patient...

The General Medical Council and Midwifery