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Br J Sports Med 2002;36:237-238 doi:10.1136/bjsm.36.4.237
  • Revalidation
  • Leader

Revalidation in sport and exercise medicine

  1. D A D Macleod1,
  2. M E Batt2,
  3. S Sheard3
  1. 1Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  2. 2Centre for Sports Medicine, University Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UG, UK
  3. 3BMI Health Services, Greyfriars, 10 Queen Victoria Road, Coventry CV1 3PJ, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Macleod, Chairman of the Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, Scotland, UK;
 y.gilbert{at}rcsed.ac.uk

    The proposed annual appraisal of practitioners of sport and exercise medicine is outlined

    In 1999 the General Medical Council (GMC) of the United Kingdom agreed that “all doctors must be able to demonstrate regularly that they continue to be fit to practice in their chosen field”.1 This process is termed revalidation. Doctors who complete revalidation will be granted a “licence to practice”, affording them the rights and privileges currently associated with being included on the general register of the GMC.

    Each individual doctor's revalidation will be reviewed every five years by two doctors and a single lay person. This team will be drawn from a local revalidation pool of trained people. Revalidation will be based on the contents of the individual doctor's revalidation portfolio. Each doctor's portfolio, irrespective of their specialty, will follow a standardised format. The relevant guidelines describing appropriate standards of practice will be drawn up by the Medical Royal Colleges. This immediately creates a challenge for sport and exercise medicine which does not have a single parent Medical Royal College and is not widely recognised as a specialty, although a small number of doctors have already been placed on the GMC specialist register.

    The Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise Medicine (IABSEM) is responsible to its parent Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties for setting standards in sport and exercise medicine and would seem to be the appropriate body to draw up relevant guidelines to meet revalidation standards.

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