Role of the College

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 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:

• Drafting 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.

Academy Revalidation Development Group (ARDG)

For the last 4 years, the Academy, Colleges and Faculties have been working to define the standards and supporting information for doctors across the medical specialties. To address these tasks, the ARDG has established an ongoing project which contains three main workstreams:

1. Standards – building on an adapted framework for appraisal and revalidation developed by the GMC, we have asked all of the colleges to define specialty specific standards and to identify the methods and evidence that could be used by doctors to demonstrate that they have achieved the standard.
2. Work Groups – have been established covering areas of common interest for development across the specialties. These groups include: E-portfolio; MSF; Non-Clinical Work of Doctors; CPD; and Remediation. Reports from these working groups are available on the AoMRC website at http://www.aomrc.org.uk/reports.aspx
3. Methods and Tools –Colleges and Faculties are establishing and running a number of projects looking at the development and piloting of specific methods for revalidation.

For further information about the work of the Academy please visit: www.aomrc.org.uk/revalidation.aspx