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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.
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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.
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What Our Library Users Are Saying...

"Apprentices now have greater access to resources, not only at College or University but in the workplace. The benefits are not solely logistical; the resources and services available to them via the Library & Knowledge Service are current, relevant and varied."

"The library provided me with the evidence base to support a service development of developing a early discharge detox policy. This has improved patient clinical outcomes. This also reduces length of stay and re-attendance at A&E."

"Literature searches carried out by the library staff assisted in the development of a new education program for unregistered staff in response to the Francis report."

"The library carried out a literature search and provided my team with a wealth of relevant information from a variety of different sources that we were able to use within our poster presentation."  


"The information I receive has a positive impact in my role as a Non-Executive Director. Over the past year in post I have found the library alerting service to be an invaluable resource it is a great way to be kept informed via the on-line platform that I can access at times to suit."