1.1 Develop and maintain your professional performance
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Surgeons are responsible for keeping themselves up to date and maintaining competence in all areas of their practice. In meeting the standards of Good Medical Practice, you should:
- Demonstrate and maintain competence in your area of clinical practice and the full scope of your professional work, including, where relevant, management, teaching and research.
- Keep up to date with current clinical guidelines in your field of practice, and be fully compliant with ethical and legislative guidance in relation to your practice.
- Ensure that your skills and knowledge are up to date by undertaking continuing professional development (CPD) and educational activities in all aspects of your work. These activities must be relevant to your practice and support your current skills, knowledge and career development. CPD should be planned in discussion with your appraiser and reflected in your annual personal development plan.
- Where relevant, make appropriate use of simulation to support learning of new procedures.
- Undertake all mandatory training required as part of your contractual arrangements with your place of employment.
- Dedicate appropriate time each week for activities that are essential to the long-term maintenance of the quality of the service such as CPD, education, structured teaching, audit, research, clinical management and service development. The surgical royal colleges and surgical specialty associations recommend a minimum of 50 hours of CPD activity per year, or 250 hours of CPD activity across the 5-year revalidation cycle.
- If your job plan does not allow you to keep up to date, you should address this in discussion with your appraiser and medical director.
- Develop and maintain an accurate portfolio of evidence of all your procedures and clinical activity (for example, a logbook). Such evidence must encompass your whole practice wherever this is delivered, including private practice.
- Engage in quality assurance processes and quality improvement activities, including participation in national and local audit, measuring validated outcome data, peer review, multidisciplinary meetings and morbidity and mortality meetings.
- Participate in performance reviews and in the local annual appraisal process, taking time to reflect critically on your whole practice (including non-clinical roles and private practice). You should have a constructive discussion with your appraiser using evidence gathered throughout the year, as outlined in the surgery guidance on supporting information for revalidation.
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Resources
| Title/Links | Author | Published Date |
|---|---|---|
| Good Medical Practice | GMC | 2013 |
| Good Medical Practice Framework for Appraisal and Revalidation | GMC | 2012 |
| Supporting Information for Appraisal and Revalidation | GMC | 2012 |
| Guidance on Supporting Information for Revalidation for Surgery |
AoMRC and Joint Committee on Revalidation | 2012 |
| Checklist on Supporting Information for Revalidation for Surgery |
AoMRC and Joint Committee on Revalidation | 2012 |
| Revalidation Guide for Surgery |
Joint Committee on Revalidation | 2012 |
| Revalidation Guidance for SAS Surgeons | Joint Committee on Revalidation | 2013 |
| Continuing Professional Development. Guidance for all doctors | GMC | 2012 |
| Continuing Professional Development: A summary guide for Surgery | Joint committee on Revalidation | 2013 |
| Example Appraisal Portfolios | Joint committee on Revalidation | 2013-2014 |
| Advice on Supporting Professional Activities | AoMRC | 2010 |
| Supporting Professional Activities | RCS | 2010 |