Sharing responsibility for the future standards of medical practice
In September 2016, international medical regulators endorsed a new continuing competency framework, designed to help ensure that doctors around the world are competent and keep up to date throughout their working lives.1 The United Kingdom has introduced a form of revalidation2 to achieve this, and regulators in different countries have taken a range of approaches to reach the same end.3 The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) is now examining what will work best in Australia, a system tailored to our health care context; practical, effective and evidence-based.
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