GMC - Good Medical Practice Flashcards
Duties of Doctors
- Four domains
Duties of Doctors
- Four domains
- Knowledge, skills, and performance
- Safety and quality
- Communication, partnership, teamwork
- Maintaining trust
Good medical practice:
- You must
- You should
Good medical practice:
- You must
1. Overiding duty or principle - You should
2. Explanation of meeting duty
3. Not apply in all circumstances
Duties of doctors:
Domain 1 (K,S,P)
Duties of doctors:
Domain 1: Knowledge, skills, performance
- Competent in all aspects
- incl. management, research, teaching - Up to date
- Regularly maintain and develop skills
- Familiar with guidelines and developments
- Monitor and improve work
Dutys of doctors
Domain 1 (K,S,P)
- Recording work
Dutys of doctors
Domain 1 (Knowledge, skills, performance)
- Recording work
1. Clear
- Accurate
- Findings
- Decisions
- Information given
- Drugs
- Signature - Legible
Duty of doctors
Domain 2 (S&Q)
- Contributing and complying
Duty of doctors
Domain 2 (S&Q)
- Contributing and complying
- Quality
1. Audits
2. Reflections
3. QIP
4. Reviewing patient feedback - Safety
1. Confidential inquiries
2. Adverse event recognition
3. Reporting incidents
4. Reporting reactions
5. Responding to public health requests
Duties of doctors
Domain 2 (S&Q)
- Responding to risks
Duties of doctors
Domain 2 (S&Q)
- Responding to risks
- Promote and encourage open culture
- Take prompt action
- Basic care not met
- Risk to patients
- Colleague not fit to practise - Offer help at emergencies in clinical or community settings
- Consider needs of the vulnerable
Duties of doctrs
Domain 2: Safety and quality
- Risks posed by your health
Duties of doctrs
Domain 2: Safety and quality
- Risks posed by your health
- If you suspect condition
- can be passed on
- effects judgement
- consult a suitable colleague and follow advice
- Be immunised
- Register with GP
Duties of doctors
- Domain 4: C,P,T
- Communication
Duties of doctors
- Domain 4: C,P,T
- Communication
- Listen to patients and respond honestly
- Give all information and meet communication needs
- Be considerate to those close to patient
- Be readily accessible when on duty
Duties of doctors
- Domain 3 (C,P,T)
- Teaching/training/supporting
Duties of doctors
- Domain 3 (C,P,T)
- Teaching/training/supporting
- Contribute to teaching doctors and students
- All your staff appropriately supervised
- Honest and objective in appraising and writing references
- Willing to mentor
- Support colleagues with problems, but put patient safety first
Duties of doctors
- Domain 3 (C,P,T)
- Partnership with patients
Duties of doctors
- Domain 3 (C,P,T)
- Partnership with patients
- Treat fairly and respect life choices
- Share information about care decisions
- condition and prognosis
- risk and uncertainties
- team responsibilities - Confidentiality including after death
- Empower patients
- lifestyle advice
- lifestyle support - Explain conscientious objection
- do not imply disapproval
- tell them about their right to see another doctor
- if not possible, make sure suitable colleague can take over role
Duties of doctors
- Domain 4 (Trust)
- Respect
Duties of doctors
- Domain 4 (Trust)
- Respect
- No improper emotional relationship
- patient
- close person - No exploitation or distress
- through personal beliefs
- eg. political, religious, moral - Open and honest with problems
- put matters right
- offer apology
- explain fully and promptly event
- explain short-term and long-term effects
Duties of doctors
- Domain 4: Trust
- No discrimination
Duties of doctors
- Domain 4: Trust
- No discrimination
- Priority to patients based on clinical need
- Investigations and treatment based on clinical judgement
- do not refuse or delay based on patient lifestyle - Do not deny treatment for own safety
- minimise risk
- make suitable alternative arrangements - Do not allow personal views to affect relationships or treatment
- challenge colleagues who do this - Make reasonable adjustments for disabled patients
- Do not allow complaints to affect care
- Only end relationship when trust breakdown prevents good care
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