The words to use
- Insight
- An accurate view of your own strengths, weaknesses and effect on others. It is a core quality schools select for, and you show it by checking and acting on feedback.
- Multi-source feedback
- Structured feedback from many colleagues in different roles, not just a supervisor. Foundation doctors do it every year, and all licensed doctors do it for revalidation.
- Revalidation
- The GMC's process, normally every five years, by which licensed doctors show they are up to date and fit to practise, including feedback from colleagues and patients.
- Pendleton's rules
- A 1984 feedback model: the learner says what went well and the observer adds to it, then the learner and then the observer say what could be done differently.
