BMJ 1999;319:1188-1190 ( 30 October )

Education and debate

Revalidation of doctors in Canada

Editorial by Buckley

W Dale Dauphinee, executive director. 

Medical Council of Canada, PB Box 8234, Station T, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G 3H7

dauphine@mcc.ca

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All approaches to revalidation ask doctors to prove their continuing competence to practise. This paper considers developments in Canada from two perspectives: what the profession and its regulatory bodies are doing to meet the challenge of maintaining doctors' performance, and the methods of assessment the regulatory bodies and agencies are using to address this issue. The two perspectives have led to two primary pathways: assessment related to practice activities but linked to an educational or enhancement feedback by the licensing bodies, and strategies emphasising the maintenance of good learning practices by the certifying bodies. The term revalidation is not widely used in Canada, but it can be defined as enforcing standards of practice in the medical workplace by direct measures of doctors' performance.

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We reviewed the peer reviewed literature and publicly available documents describing either existing or proposed steps for the revalidation of medical licensure or certification and the maintenance . . . [Full text of this article]
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