Greenhalgh and Wong's editorial1 on revalidation is timely and important. I have just completed a so-called ‘Strengthened Medical Appraisal’ or SMA, and found the experience not only infuriatingly clumsy in terms of its online functionality, but pathetically irrelevant to my own sense of what it is to be, I hope, an adequate GP. And, just as Greenhalgh and Wong foresee, the requirement for this annual exercise is very likely to dissuade me from continuing in practice part-time following my retirement in May.
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