Specialty Guidance

As part of revalidation, doctors will need to collect and bring to their appraisal six types of supporting information to show how they are keeping up to date and fit to practice.

The GMC has outlined requirements for doctors in its guidance Supporting Information for Appraisal and Revalidaiton. It recommends that doctors in specialist practice should consult the supporting information guidance provided by their college or faculty (below). This guidance amplifies the headings provided by the GMC, by providing additional detail about the GMC requirements and what each college or faculty expects relating to this, based on their specialty expertise.  These expectations are laid out in each specialty guidance under ‘Requirements’. Further descriptive information is given under the heading 'Guidance'.

The Academy's final core guidance framework (below) has been agreed by all Colleges and Faculties. It has been devised to simplify the appraisal process and the supporting information doctors need in order to revalidate.

Each of the specialty guidance frameworks has been developed by the relevant Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties who are responsible for setting the standards of care within their own specialty, and for providing specialty advice and guidance on the supporting information required of doctors to demonstrate that professional standards have been met in line with the GMC requirements. All are based on the Academy's core guidance framework to ensure commonality in appraisal for revalidation regardless of a doctor's specialty.