Revalidation

The College of Emergency Medicine's role in revalidation, as with other medical royal colleges and faculties, is:

• To set educational, professional and clinical standards for the specialty, thus encouraging good medical practice and standards of care
• Develop and pilot methods to demonstrate a practitioner’s fitness to practice, both professional conduct and clinical competence, against the specialty standards
• To be able to provide assistance to individuals that are struggling to provide supporting information to demonstrate fitness to practice
• To have a system which will enable early identification of colleagues in difficulty throughout the 5 year cycle both at a local, regional and national level so that remedial action either locally or via the college can be implemented at the appropriate level
• Facilitate approving, obtaining and recording of relevant high quality CPD in line with the requirements of revalidation

The College has established a Revalidation subcommittee of the Professional Standards Committee, under the direction of the Revalidation Chair Dr Gillian Bryce, to continue and complete specific work streams as well as develop a quality assurance framework for revalidation.

This committee will continue to develop several work streams including:

• Developing guidance about the Specialty Standards Framework
• Piloting the specialty elements of Revalidation
• Developing appropriate multi-source feedback and patient feedback tools
• Establishing e-learning assessments
• Producing specialty specific guidance about appraisal
• Quality Assuring the revalidation process
• Develop a system of support for remedial problems/doctors in difficulty including local, regional and national support
• E-portfolio and WBA development
• Developing revalidation guidance for patients
• ‘Orphan groups’– there are a number of doctors in the specialty that do not work in the NHS who are EM doctors, these areas need to be identified so advice can be given regarding revalidation
• Providing detailed revalidation information on CEM website for Fellows and Members
• Developing CPD modules appropriate for supporting revalidation.

The subcommittee has representatives from each National/Regional area.