7.2: Doctor and Medical Students ✅

Question 1

What determines fitness to practice?

Answer 1

Law and Professional guidance

Question 2

WMO

Answer 2

World Medical Association

Gives ethical guidance though:
-declarations
-resolution and
-statements

Question 3

General Medical Council

Answer 3

Maintain and manage a register of doctors licensed to practice medicine in the UK

Set professional standards

Supervise medical education

Revalidation and appraisal of doctors’ fitness to practice

Investigate concerns about doctors, and enforce professional discipline

Question 4

Duty to patient

Answer 4

Legal duty of care once responsibility of a patient is assumed

Question 5

Duty to doctor

Answer 5

Acting for patients is priority but

“Important to look after your own health”

Question 6

Medical students fitness to practice

Answer 6

1. Students are also in a privileged position, and have access to patients who may be vulnerable.
2. Students’ fitness to practice related to health