Revalidation - Doctors

Revalidation is the process by which all licensed doctors are required to demonstrate on a regular basis that they are up to date and fit to practise in their chosen field and able to provide a good level of care. This means that holding a licence to practise is becoming an indicator that the doctor continues to meet the professional standards set by the GMC and the specialists standard set by the medical Royal Colleges and Faculties.

Licensed doctors have to revalidate usually every five years, by having annual appraisal based on our core guidance for doctors, Good medical practice.

There are six types of supporting information that doctors will be expected to provide and discuss at their appraisal at least once in each five year cycle. They are:

  1. Continuing professional development (CPD)
  2. Quality improvement activity
  3. Significant events
  4. Feedback from colleagues
  5. Feedback from patients
  6. Review of complaints and compliments

How can the Library & Knowledge Service help you?

We provide dedicated print and electronic resources to help you keep up -to-date with best evidence based practice, reflective practice, leadership, teaching skills and communication skills and much more.

We provide training sessions on information search techniques so that you can develop the skills to find the evidence for yourself. These are participatory sessions and a certificate of attendance is provided for each 1hr session attended.

We can do literature searches for you on your chosen subjects to help you keep up -to-date with best practice and quality improvement initiatives.

We can obtain  journal articles & publications for you to help you to stay abreast  of the latest developments in your field of expertise.

We can email you current awareness alerts for new journal articles published in your area of interest to assist you with your CPD reading.

Communication Skills

We have a range of print and electronic resources on this topic. Browse the library catalogue or get in touch for further details. We also offer  signposting to high quality sources of patient information.
Earn CME credits when you read the latest evidence summaries from Dynamed Plus

Journals Clubs 

.Journal clubs are educational meetings where individuals meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the scientific literature. They have often been cited as a bridge between research and practice, as they encourage the application of research in clinical practice and quality improvement.
 
The Library & Knowledge Service can help you to set up and facilitate a regular Journal Club. Journal clubs are both participatory and reflective in nature so can provide you with excellent CPD evidence.
 
Get in touch with us to find out more.

Clinical Audits

The Library provides access to the latest guidelines and other audit criterai as well as evidence on what works to improve practice. we can carry out a literature search for you on the audit topic or you can attend a literature search session to brush up on your own search skills. Get in touch for further details.