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Consultation responses

The General Medical Council consultation on Good Medical Practice (2012) 

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The General Medical Council consultation on Continuing Professional Development (2012) 

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The General Dental Council consultation on Outcomes for Registration (2010) 

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The General Medical Council consultation on Revalidation: The way ahead (2010)

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The General Medical Council consultation on QABME Options for Enhancement (2010)

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The General Chiropractic Council consultation on the Review of Degree Recognition Criteria (2010)

This consultation was issued via the Inter-regulatory group convened by the GMC.

The General Medical Council consultation on the Options for the Future Regulation of Medical Education and Training (2010)

Summary

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Patel Review recommendations. We agree with the presentation of the recommendations at a fairly high level, each requiring greater detail and understanding through a process of further discussion and consultation.

General comments

  • We welcome the intention to avoid a “one size fits all” approach (section 3 paragraph 14)
  • Consideration should be given to interprofessional as well as professional development

Specific comments

  • We agree that the GMC should strengthen relationships with (and between) education and training providers (recommendation 3)
  • That nationally collected data sets (e.g. the enhanced annual return) should be analysed and used to inform medical schools (c/f national picture), and long term future of our graduates, so that we may make informed adjustments to our programme (recommendation 5)
  • That further investigations of the role of students while undergraduates should be undertaken (recommendation 7)
  • That extreme care needs to be taken when considering the 'consistency of outputs' from undergraduate education, and that further work in this area should be informed by evidence (recommendation 8)
  • We agree that trainers should have opportunities for developing their teaching, but recommend the GMC works with partners to deliver this (recommendation 12)
  • We believe that thoughtful implementation of the EAR provides sufficient avenues for effectively addressing emerging problems identified in QABME review (recommendation 22)
  • That QA based on an examination of process, coupled with Tomorrow's Doctors 2009 and the QAA benchmark is still appropriate in the UK in 2010 (recommendation 23), but that QABME should be reviewed in light of the changes (recommendation 24)
  • We strongly agree that the GMC should collaborate with systems regulators to reinforce the need for training providers to clearly identify and deliver their role in relation to education and training (recommendations 25 and 26)

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The General Medical Council consultation on Making and Using Visual and Audio Recordings of Patients (2009)

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The General Medical Council consultation on Tomorrow's Doctors (2009)

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