Managing Remediation

Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 366-378

  Cohen, Deborah ^a   Rhydderch, Melody ^a   Cooper, Ian ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correct processes for assessing performance, planning remediation and evaluating outcomes most critical; Doctors' and their language skill assessment not a novel undertaking; General Medical Council's (GMC) key concern, whether a doctor is fit to practise; Management of poor performance in doctors challenges to employing organisations and educational bodies; Managing remediation; Occupational health assessments; Organisational factors, triggering and perpetuating individual poor performance; Personalised remediation, matching provision closely to individual needs; Remediation, set apart from counselling and forms of therapy interventions having a manageable time line; Workplace behaviours how the doctor interacts in a workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856992313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320282.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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