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Occupational Medicine 2004;54:218-226
Occupational Medicine, Vol. 54 No. 4 © Society of Occupational Medicine; all rights reserved

Appraisal standards in occupational medicine

Keith T. Palmer1, Noel McElearney2 and Malcolm Harrington3 on behalf of the Education Panel of the Society of Occupational Medicine and the Revalidation Committee of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

1 Director of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Occupational Medicine, London, UK.
2 Chair of the Society of Occupational Medicine’s Education Panel.
3 Former Chair of the Society of Occupational Medicine’s Education Panel.

Following a series of serious misdemeanours by British doctors, the General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced a system of re-licensing called ‘revalidation’. Annual medical appraisal forms an important cornerstone of the proposed system, but specific guidance is lacking on the content of appraisal for occupational physicians, and the kinds of evidence that they might bring to critical reviews of performance. Two educational bodies, the Revalidation Committee of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and the Education Panel of the Society of Occupational Medicine, have jointly developed a set of recommendations on appraisal to further the process. In this paper we summarize the background and present the guidelines promulgated by the Faculty and the Society.

Keywords      Appraisal; governance; professional standards; revalidation

Received        1 December 2003
Accepted        4 January 2004

Correspondence to: Dr Keith Palmer, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK. Tel: +44 023 80777624; fax: +44 023 80704021; e-mail: ktp{at}mrc.soton.ac.uk


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