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In medical law and medical licensing, fitness to practise is a concept in the regulation of medicine regarding whether a health professional or social worker should be allowed to work. While fitness to practice can include matters of technical competence, including qualifications the concept also contains questions about the implications of the ...
If some or all of the facts in the allegation/s are found proved the MPT will move to consider whether a doctor's fitness to practise is impaired which is Stage 2 of the hearing process. [32] This is referenced in Rule 17(2)(k) of the 2004 Rules, [35] although there is no statutory definition of what constitutes 'impairment'.
The Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) is the main method of assessment for UK pathology training - evaluation of a candidate's training programme, indicating fitness to practise, whilst also marking the entry into independent practice and the beginning of continuing professional development.
The Medical Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 90), passed in 1858, [2] established the General Council of Medical Education & Registration of the United Kingdom, now known as the GMC. It stated that under the Poor Law system boards of guardians could only employ those qualified in medicine and surgery as Poor Law doctors. [ 3 ]
The GMC has powers to issue advice or warnings to doctors, accept undertakings from them, or refer them to a fitness-to-practise panel. The GMC's fitness-to-practise panels can accept undertakings from a doctor, issue warnings, impose conditions on a doctor's practice, suspend a doctor, or remove them from the medical register (when they are ...
Fitness to Practise Committee (makes decisions in cases where a registrant's fitness to practise may be impaired, for reasons concerning their conduct, professional performance or health); and; Appeals Committee (considers appeals of decisions relating to applications for registration and registration status).
The practice of "tele-medicine" has made it common for physicians to consult or interpret images and information from a distant location. Some states have special licensure for this. The licensure process for most physicians takes between three and six months, due to the extensive background checks, educational, training, and historical primary ...
Fitness to Practice is a 2004 album produced for charity by Amateur Transplants (Adam Kay and Suman Biswas). 10% of the profits from the album sales go to Macmillan Cancer Relief. [1] A remastered version of the album available with two bonus tracks, "Northern Birds" and "What I Went to SKL 4".