Glossary
If you have run into a term or more likely acronym that you are unfamiliar with, we hope this page will be of use.
General Acronyms Glossary
DB |
Designated Body |
GMC |
General Medical Council |
BMA |
British Medical Association |
IMG |
International Medical Graduates |
MPL / NPL |
Medical Performers List / National Performers List |
GMP |
Good Medical Practice 2024 |
Appraisal and Training Acronyms
MSF |
Colleague feedback (Multi Source Feedback) |
PSQ/PSS |
Patient feedback (Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire/Survey) |
QA/QI |
Quality Assurance/Improvement |
QIA |
Quality Improvement Activity |
SUPPORTS QI |
Quality improvement tool to check quality of appraisal outputs and summary documents |
PDP |
Personal Development Plan |
PDR |
Performance Development Review |
SI/SE |
Significant Incident/Significant Event |
ESR |
Educational Supervisor's Report |
ARCP |
Annual review of competence progression |
CCT |
Certificate for Completion of Training |
STP |
Specialty Training Posts |
VTS |
Vocational Training Schemes |
CASA |
Current Appraiser Skills Assessment |
NAT |
New Appraiser Training |
HR Acronyms
DPO |
Data Protection Officer |
GDPR |
General Data Protection Regulations |
SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
ToE |
Terms of Engagement |
Medical Royal Colleges Acronyms
AoMRC |
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges |
RCEM |
Royal College of Emergency Medicine |
RCoA |
Royal College of Anaesthetists |
RCGP |
Royal College of General Practioners |
RCOG |
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists |
RCOphth |
Royal College of Ophthalmologists |
RCPCH |
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |
RCPath |
Royal College of Pathologists |
RCP |
Royal College of Physicians of London |
RCPsych |
Royal College of Psychiatrists |
RCR |
Royal College of Radiologists |
RCS |
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |
RSM |
Royal Society of Medicine |
BCAM |
British College of Aesthetic Medicine |
BCOM |
British College of Osteopathic Medicine |
Medical Faculties Acronyms
FICM |
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine |
FOM |
Faculty of Occupational Medicine |
FMLM |
Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management |
FFLM |
Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine |
FPM |
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine |
FPH |
Faculty of Public Health |
FH |
Faculty of Homeopathy |