GMC seeks views on enhancing doctors’ professional skills and capabilities

GMC seeks views on improving medical professionals’ expert abilities and capabilities

The GMC and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) have released an assessment focused on making medical professionals better experts, communicators and leaders. For the next 3 months views on a proposed framework for generic expert abilities will be sought, consisting of the outcomes that doctors will have to demonstrate by the end of their postgraduate specialized training. The structure clarifies the core knowledge, abilities and behaviours which physicians need and which prevail across all medical specialties, such as reliable interaction, team-working and patient-centred choice making. These and other key abilities described in the framework are vital for safe, high quality medical care and will support physicians’ development as high carrying out, caring and c.
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GMC welcomes independent whistleblowers review by Sir Anthony Hooper

An independent evaluation commissioned by the GMC has advised that organisations referring concerns about a medical professional’s fitness to practice to the GMC should state whether the physician has raised concerns about client safety. The   report by Sir Anthony Hooper (pdf), a retired Lord Justice of Appeal, says there is proof that those who raise concerns might suffer, or think that they suffer, reprisals from their company or from coworkers. He proposes a series of recommendations for GMC examinations to make sure that such whistleblowers are relieved fairly. Sir Anthony says the essential to minimising the threat that the GMC unsuspectingly ends up being the instrument of the company in a campaign against a doctor is an understanding of the background to the allegation. Niall Dickson, Chief Executiv …
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GMC reacts to BMA decision to escalate industrial action

The BMA has revealed that it will intensify its program of commercial action. Junior members of the BMA in England will now stage a complete walk-out in between the hours of 8.00 am and 5.00 pm on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 April. Professor Terence Stephenson, the Chair of the General Medical Council, said: ‘Senior members of the career are extremely concerned about this latest action which the BMA feel they have to take and I make sure every doctor will review our assistance. ‘While we have no function in setting pay, terms and conditions for medical professionals, we are responsible for managing their education and training. The levels of distress and alienation that we see amongst them refers serious issue to the GMC. ‘This conflict in England have to be fixed– and solved quickly– so th …
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How professional are medical students?At completion of in 2014, we ran a

survey to learn more about the professional values of the UK’s medical students. Over 2,500 students took part to inform us exactly what they believed. We asked if students believed it was OK to dodge train fares when cash was tight, if it was appropriate to return to a patient’s home for a coffee, and if it was suitable to whine about a lecture on Facebook. We likewise asked for views on raising concerns and patient security. Our new report unites the responses we got. It reveals that broadly, the majority of students have an understanding of professionalism that matches what we would anticipate from future medical professionals. Likewise, we can be very carefully assured by students’ views on raising concerns about client safety and acting within their skills. The report highli …
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Student Leads International Medical Association General Assembly

School of Public Health Miles Per Hour student Salma Abdalla acted as plenary chairperson at the General Assembly of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), kept in Malta from March 2 to 8. Throughout the assembly, Abdalla was likewise chosen to the federation’s supervising council as an interim member. The assembly brought together 1,300 medical students from 82 countries. Designing on the United Nations, the federation welcomes former leaders to head assemblies. Abdalla was secretary general of the federation two years ago while finishing her MD in her home country of Sudan. “My experience here at BUSPH and in international health offered me a broader viewpoint,” says Abdalla, who finishes this spring. A public health education “certainly enriched whatever contributio …
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The GMC responds to The Guardian’s article about language testing for European medical professionals

A response to The Guardian’s article about European doctors being avoided from obtaining a licence due to language checks. Niall Dickson, President of the General Medical Council stated: ‘This has been a vital patient precaution. Medical professionals need to have the ability to speak English effectively. The fact that we can now examine medical professionals concerning the UK from elsewhere in Europe is showing effective. More than 770 physicians from Europe did not offer evidence of their English language capabilities when they made their initial application and as an outcome they were not licensed to work in the UK. ‘We have also enhanced the score doctors need to achieve in the international English language test to make sure that just those with a high level of English are able to practise in the UK. ‘Thi …
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Shape of Training evaluation

GMC statement on the Shape of Training review. Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, said: ‘There has been a good deal of comment and confusion around the shape of training evaluation and possible modifications to postgraduate medical training in the UK. The independent evaluation was established by the four federal governments of the UK to look at the altering requirements of patients and the kind of physicians that will be had to provide high quality care in the future. There are suggestions made in the evaluation that could need modifications to postgraduate training and everybody accepts that more work needs to be done to understand the advantages and impact of such changes. ‘There is however a consensus that more need to be done to create physicians who have generalist abilities to handle a …
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