The development and validation of an instrument to measure meeting success has been described in earlier work. This instrument is now revalidated in organisational meetings where Group Support Systems (GSS) were employed to support meeting processes. In addition, a derived version of the instrument for measurement of longitudinal meetings is introduced. # 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights r...

UK origins The First5 concept was developed in 2008 by the Associates in Training Committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom.1,2 The aim was to address concerns from trainees that, at the end of a very supportive training program, they experienced an “off-the-cliff” feeling where suddenly they were out on their own as independent practitioners in the vast and ...

INTRODUCTION UK doctors are now required to participate in revalidation to maintain their licence to practise. Appraisal is a fundamental component of revalidation. However, objective evidence of appraisal changing doctors' behaviour and directly resulting in improved patient care is limited. In particular, it is not clear how the process of appraisal is supposed to change doctors' behaviour an...

ABST RACT Assessment of pain is vital for colic treatment. The purpose of this study was to revalidate a refined version of the behaviour-based Equine Acute Abdominal Pain Scale (EAAPS). Based on an earlier study, behaviours in the scale were removed or replaced. Ten behaviours remained. For revalidation, forty films of horses with colic were presented by computer-generated random order to two ...

OBJECTIVE To explore and categorise the state of existing literature for national programmes designed to affirm or establish the continuing competence of physicians. DESIGN Scoping review. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, ERIC, Sociological Abstracts, web/grey literature (2000-2014). SELECTION Included when a record described a (1) national-level physician validation system, (2) recognised as a syst...

OBJECTIVE To explore the views of senior doctors on mental illness within the medical profession. BACKGROUND There has been increasing interest on the issue of doctors' mental health. However, there have been few qualitative studies on senior doctors' general attitude towards mental illness within the medical profession. SETTING Large North London teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 13 hospit...

BACKGROUND The UK general practitioner (GP) appraisal system is deemed to be an inadequate source of performance evidence to inform a future medical revalidation process. A long-running voluntary model of external peer review in the west of Scotland provides feedback by trained peers on the standard of GP colleagues' core appraisal activities and may 'add value' in strengthening the robustness ...