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The duties of a doctor registered with the General Medical Council

Notes on terminology

Domain 1 – knowledge, skills and performance

• 1.1 Develop and maintain your professional performance
• 1.2 Apply knowledge and experience to practice
  • 1.2.1 Good standards of clinical practice
  • 1.2.2 Emergency surgery
  • 1.2.3 Clinical and basic science research
  • 1.2.4 Introduction of new techniques
• 1.3 Record your work clearly, accurately and legibly

Domain 2 – Safety and Quality

• 2.1. Contribute to and comply with systems to protect patients
  • 2.1.1. Ensuring consistency in patient safety
  • 2.1.2. Measuring quality and outcomes
• 2.2. Respond to risks to safety
• 2.3. Protect patients and colleagues from any risk posed by your health

Domain 3 – Communication, partnership, teamwork

• 3.1. Communicate effectively
  • 3.1.1. Communication with patients
  • 3.1.2. Communication with colleagues
• 3.2. Work collaboratively with colleagues to maintain and improve patient care
  • 3.2.1. Individual behaviour
  • 3.2.2. Teamworking
• 3.3. Teaching, training, supporting, assessing
  • 3.3.1. Medical students
  • 3.3.2. Surgeons in training
  • 3.3.3. Staff grades, associate specialists and specialty surgeons
  • 3.3.4. Locum surgeons
• 3.4. Continuity and coordination of care
• 3.5. Establish and maintain partnership with patients
• 3.5.1. Consent
  • 3.5.2. Preoperative checks
  • 3.5.3. Patient feedback
  • 3.5.4. Responding to harm and duty of candour

Domain 4 – Maintaining trust

• 4.1. Show respect for patients
• 4.2.Treat patients and colleagues fairly and without discrimination
• 4.3. Act with honesty and integrity
  • 4.3.1. Provision of information about surgeons’ practice
  • 4.3.2. Private practice
  • 4.3.3. Probity