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Glossary

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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