Glossary March 2019

AoMRC = Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
CPD = Continuing Professional Development
Formative = a developmental assessment to promote quality improvement by facilitating reflection and providing feedback to help in identifying strengths and weaknesses and making plans to target areas for development. Formative interventions are context specific and used in an educational way, to facilitate improvement over time, although they may include the learning from summative assessments (see below)
FSRH = Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
GMC = General Medical Council
PDP = Personal Development Plan
QIA = Quality Improvement Activities
One credit = one hour of learning activity
RCGP recommendation – based on the RCGP Guide to Supporting Information for Appraisal and Revalidation (May 2018) and calibrated with other stakeholders prior to publication of this ‘Mythbusters’ paper
Summative = an end point assessment against an external standard to provide a point score or pass/fail result. Note: Summative assessments can be used formatively to give feedback on performance that helps to promote further development (see also formative above)
Undifferentiated primary care = Providing the full range of general medical services and treating all patients in a primary care setting without prior restriction in the type of presenting complaint

Clarity Appraisals for Doctors