What is an appraisal?

An 'appraisal' discussion is given once a year by your employer, to plan for your educational and developmental needs and to discuss your professional role during the last year. You should keep a record of these discussions as they will be needed when the GMC start the revalidation process they have been promising for the last few years.  For more information, please see the following website; http://www.appraisalsupport.nhs.uk/about.asp

An update about revalidation

Revalidation is getting closer so remember to keep a note of your activity (that is notes of what operations you have done as a surgeon, what anaesthetics as a anaesthetist etc.) and what courses you have been on, how many new out-patients and how many follow-up out-patients you have seen. Keep a record of how many complaints you have had, if any, what they were about and how you have dealt with them. Then when it is time for your yearly appraisal you can present all this to show that you are an active, up to date doctor that is ready for revalidation.

For more information regarding revalidation, please see the following website; http://www.revalidationsupport.nhs.uk/default.asp