Insightful practice: a reliable measure for medical revalidation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical revalidation decisions need to be reliable if they are to reassure on the quality and safety of professional practice. This study tested an innovative method in which general practitioners (GPs) were assessed on their reflection and response to a set of externally specified feedback.

Setting and participants

60 GPs and 12 GP appraisers in the Tayside region of Scotland, UK.

Methods

A feedback dataset was specified as (1) GP-specific data collected by GPs themselves (patient and colleague opinion; open book self-evaluated knowledge test; complaints) and (2) Externally collected practice-level data provided to GPs (clinical quality and prescribing safety). GPs' perceptions of whether the feedback covered UK General Medical Council specified attributes

SUBMITTER: Murphy DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3404544 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature