How is appraisal linked to revalidation?
To Top Go To The Appraisal Process The Appraisal will provide a regular, structured system for recording progress and supporting individual doctors in achieving revalidation. While appraisal and revalidation will be based largely or wholly on the same sources of information, and appraisal summaries will inform revalidation, the objectives of the two processes are distinct and complementary. Appraisal is concerned with the doctor’s professional development within his or her working environment and the needs of the organisation for which the doctor works. Revalidation involves an assessment against a standard of fitness to practice in line with the seven headings of the GMC’s guidance ‘Good Medical Practice’. It will allow a doctor’s licence to practice to be renewed. Despite these differences, appraisal and revalidation should be linked for the sake of economy of effort, with the GMC’s Good Medical Practice as common ground. The results of the phase II revalidation pilot, which examined
