From: "Ahmad Risk" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:09 AM
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 00:26:33 +0100, Fay Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> >2. I don't see a difficulty with him organising his revalidation
>
> I cannot organise 'clinical' revalidation because of 1 above. I have no
> patients!
Sorry to be boring and repetitious but revalidation is not necessarily
clinical. You do not have to do clinical revalidation Ahmad.
> Question: the law says you cannot call yourself a doctor unless GMC
> registered. The GMC says each doctor will be licenced in their sphere of
> practice. In my case (and others), that sphere of practice is
> informatics. Will I still be able to call myself 'doctor', or does the
> GMC interpretation of the law applies only to 'clinically active' doctors?
The title doctor is not protected. What you cannot do is hold yourself out
to be a registered medical practitioner if you are not one. So if struck off
or voluntarily erased or suspended you can still call yourself "doctor" (as
can lots of people) but you can't hold yourself out etc...
I can see there may be potential here for an advisory service assisting
doctors with atypical careers to sort out their revalidation via
non-standard routes.
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Fay
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