How to Get Through Revalidation

Peter Davies graduated from Leeds in 1989 and passed his Membership examination for the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and summative assessment in 1995. He became a GP principal at the Alison Lea Medical Centre in East Kilbride in 1996. In 2001, he moved back to his home town of Halifax. He worked as a salaried GP in the deprived area of Mixenden, Halifax, from 2001 to 2005, before moving as a partner to Keighley Road Surgery, Illingworth, Halifax, in 2005. He received his Fellowship of the RCGP in 2009. Peter has many roles beyond his partnership, sometimes to the despair of his partners. He is provost of the Yorkshire Faculty of the RCGP, having previously been chair for many years. He represents the Yorkshire Faculty on the RCGP Council. He was GP Appraisal Lead for NHS Calderdale up to July 2012. He resigned this role so that he could concentrate on developing his work as Board Member of the Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group. He is a prolific and reflective medical author and has published many articles in the BMJ, British Journal of General Practice and elsewhere. He has written three previous books, entitled Putting Patients Last (Civitas, 2009), The New GP's Handbook (Radcliffe, 2012) and Between Health and Illness: explorations in and around medicine (Amazon Create Space and Kindle). In this book, he is writing personally and not on behalf of any organisation. He can be contacted via npgdavies@blueyonder.co.uk or via his Radcliffe Author page.

About the author. List of abbreviations. Section 1: The overall architecture: who does what and when. What this book is about. Your licence to practise medicine. The overall architecture of revalidation. The General Medical Council's role in revalidation. The responsible officer's role in revalidation. The appraiser's role in revalidation. The individual doctor's role in appraisal and revalidation. Personal development plans. Section 2: The evidence you need to produce for revalidation. The General Medical Council's requirements for revalidation evidence. Quality improvement activity. Significant event audit. Continuing professional development. Multiple source (colleague) feedback.  Patient source feedback. Response to concerns and complaints. How should I present this evidence to my appraiser? Sessional doctors and other atypical scenarios. Section 3: Reflections and background: the reasons behind revalidation. Why is reflective learning so highly valued? Some thoughts about feedback. How can revalidation benefit me? Does revalidation actually achieve its objective? Appendix 1:  How to stay sane and healthy as a doctor. Index.