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Revalidation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter J. W. Wood
Peter J. W. Wood*
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The Grange, 92 Whitcliffe Road, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire BD19 3DR. E-mail: drwood@the-grange.org.uk
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , February 2004 , pp. 66
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As a non-NHS forensic psychiatrist, practising predominantly medico-legal psychiatry, I have been concerned as to how I should go about the process of revalidation. I was greatly reassured at a recent lecture from a representative of the GMC (Dr Krishna Korlipara: Second Grange Conference, Lake Windermere, 11 October, 2003) that the GMC are particularly keen to avoid increasing the administrative burden on doctors during the process of revalidation. I was urged to seek out an ‘appraisal’ route to revalidation rather than taking the ‘independent’ route, and it was suggested that I should seek out individuals in a similar situation to myself and form a loose cooperative for the purposes of maintaining annual appraisal, tailored to our particular needs.

I would be most interested to hear from other practitioners not involved in NHS appraisal, predominantly working in the medico-legal field so as to explore the most effective way forward to maintaining an annual appraisal.

I look forward to hearing the views of others on this topic.

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