Professional profile

Use your Professional Profile to save your personal and professional details. Relevant information will then be automatically added to Form 1 and 2 of your appraisal.  

 
 

Your Professional Profile is separated into the following sections.

Click the links below for more information:

Personal information

Your AMC information is populated automatically and cannot be changed through Appraisal Toolkit. To change these details you must contact the AMC directly

You can edit your telephone number and date of birth here, however to change your email address please contact Customer Support on 0738552093.

Every practising clinician should have a Medical Indemnity policy. Here you need to enter the membership number of your policy and your policy provider. The top 3 providers can be found in the drop down list. If your policy is with a company we have not provided in the list, select other and enter the name of your medical indemnity provider manually.

You should enter your revalidation date to allow you to utilise the Revalidation Area of Appraisal Toolkit.

The GMC's guidelines on Good Medical Practice state"you should be registered with a general practitioner outside your family".

You should enter your specialty to utilise the Specialty Benchmark information when completing your multi-source feedback.

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Qualifications

Use this section to add details of any professional qualifications you obtain that are relevant to your appraisal. You can upload electronic or scanned certificates and documents once you have added a qualification.

Qualifications will be automatically added to your appraisal.

You can reflect on this section in your appraisal.

Click to add a new qualification item.

The form is separated into two tabs:

Add the details of your qualification. Only the Title and Date Awarded fields are required but you may find it useful to include a description for your appraiser. Once you have completed the fields, click  at the bottom of the page.

 Use this tab to upload any documents as evidence.

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Memberships

Use this section to record any memberships you have to medical colleges or faculties.

You can reflect on this section in your appraisal.

Click  to enter details of a new membership.

Memberships will be automatically added to your appraisal.

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Roles

Your appraisal should focus on all of the professional roles you perform, not just your clinical positions. Use this section to add information about all of the roles you perform, including managerial, academic, teaching and research positions.

You can then upload electronic documents as evidence for you appraisal.

You can reflect on this section in your appraisal.

Click to add a new role. The form is separated into two tabs:

You should complete as much of the Details tab as possible to provide background for your Appraiser. Once you have completed the fields, click  at the bottom of the page.

 Use this tab to upload any documents as evidence.

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Probity

The Probity section involves details of issues relating to honesty, integrity and being trustworthy; characteristics which are integral to a clinician's good medical practice. Probity issues may involve both the clinician and their practice.
An effort should be made to reflect on at least one issue of probity each appraisal year.
Matters of probity may include:

  • Fabrication or falsification of documents such as; information regarding medical services, CVs, research, report writing
  • Ethical practice including bribes regarding drug representatives and other practitioners
  • Patient care such as; exploiting vulnerable patients, receiving gifts, confidentiality issues
  • Conflicts of interest such as financial gain from organisations they are affiliated with

Click  to add details of a new probity matter.

You should complete as much of the Details tab as possible to provide background for your Appraiser.

  • Once you have completed the fields, click  at the bottom of the page.

It is important to declare all probity issues you encounter through your practice and to reflect upon them for your appraisal. Any information added here will be added to the Probity declaration in the Statements and Declarations of your appraisal.

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Minor surgeries / Surgical logs

Primary Care Clinicians:

Use this section to add details of any minor surgery procedures you perform during the year, particularly those that went better than expected, had complications or that were interesting cases.

This is not a GMC mandated evidence category for revalidation, however you may find your appraisal a useful time to discuss these events with your Appraiser.

  • Click  to add a new item

There are two tabs to complete

You should complete as much of the Details tab as possible to provide background for your Appraiser.

  • Once you have completed the fields, click at the bottom of the page.

Use this tab to upload any documents as evidence.

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Secondary Care Clinicians:

Use this section to add details of any minor surgery procedures you perform during the year, particularly those that went better than expected, had complications or that were interesting cases.

This is not a GMC mandated evidence category for revalidation, however you may find your appraisal a useful time to discuss these events with your Appraiser.

  • Click  to add a new item




You can choose between adding:

  1. an individual procedure
  2. a surgical log document (e.g. from excel) containing the details of many surgeries. 
  • Click either or

There are two tabs to complete:

You should complete as much of the Details tab as possible to provide background for your Appraiser.

  • Once you have completed the fields, click at the bottom of the page.

Use this tab to upload any documents as evidence.

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