Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice

Tomorrow's Doctors: Endnotes

  1. 1. See High Quality Care for All – NHS Next Stage Review Final Report.
  2. 2. The term ‘other education providers’ means organisations involved in the delivery of undergraduate medical education outside the medical school itself, including their staff, GP tutors, clinical tutors, NHS staff, and others in the local health economy or independent sector with specific
    roles in educational supervision.
  3. 3. ‘NHS organisations’ includes acute, primary care and mental health organisations, and the boards and authorities which oversee their work.
  4. 4. Primary prevention of disease is understood to refer to the prevention of disease onset. Secondary prevention of disease is understood to refer to the detection of disease in symptom-free individuals. Tertiary prevention of disease is understood to refer to the prevention of disease progression, and to palliation or rehabilitation.
  5. 5. The term ‘placement’ means a structured period of supervised clinical experience and learning in a health or social care setting (including community health services and non-NHS settings).
  6. 6. The terms ‘clinical tutor’ and ‘clinical supervisor’ mean any doctor or other healthcare professional responsible for the supervision or assessment of a student on a placement.
  7. 7. This includes universities and non university bodies with appropriate degree-awarding powers that are recognised by the GMC.
  8. 8. A Student Assistantship means a period during which a student acts as assistant to a junior doctor, with defined duties under appropriate supervision.
    9. A generalisable assessment is one where candidates’ scores are not influenced by specific circumstances such as variability in examination conditions or examiners.
  9. 10. When acting as a Student Assistant, a student must not carry out any procedure or take responsibility for anything which requires provisional registration and, from the introduction of the licence to practise, a licence.
  10. 11 ‘Examiners’ here means all those responsible for marking, assessing or judging students’ performance, regardless of the terminology used in any particular medical school.