General Medical Council

About: General Medical Council is a government organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Health care & Public health. The organization has 69 authors who have published 111 publications receiving 1663 citations. The organization is also known as: GMC.

Students whose behaviour causes concern: The GMC's view.

Abstract: What should you do when you see a fellow student behaving inappropriately? After a group of students wrote to the BMJ about their experience during an elective (doi:10.1136/bmj.a2874), we sought the opinions of an ethicist (doi:10.1136/bmj.a2882), a dean (doi:10.1136/bmj.a2884), a GMC representative, and a lecturer from an African university (doi:10.1136/bmj.a2875)

Skill, Competence and Assessment Revisited

Abstract: This chapter brings together the material covered in Chap. 3– 9 to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of skilled activity from a predominantly neurophysiological and cognitive perspective. It uses the Dreyfus and Dreyfus model to provide a framework for this deeper understanding. A structure for psychomotor performance is described based on the system used in clinical resuscitation courses but extending it into application of the psychomotor activity into clinical practice. A basic unit of skilled activity is described: the skill set. This is mapped to the Dreyfus and Dreyfus model to produce an integrated model. Based upon that work formal definitions for competence and performance are offered along with a consequential modification to Miller’s framework.

The detection and identification of other 17,21‐dihydroxy‐20‐ oxosteroids in corticosteroids

Abstract: A method is described for the separation of corticosteroids by paper chromatography. It is more sensitive than the present official test and will control the presence of related foreign steroids to a uniform degree and in a reproducible manner. Details of the application of this test to many pharmaceutically important steroids are given and the relationship of molecular structure to mobility in the solvent systems used is discussed.