2023 Scottish Medical Appraisers Annual Conference

Following feedback from appraisers in previous conferences, a decision was made to run the 2023 Scottish Medical Appraisers Conference independently from the NES Annual Conference to allow those appraisers with educational roles to fully engage with the medical education sessions.

The NES conference took place on 27 & 28 April 2023 and whilst the Medical Appraisal team wasn’t part of the setup, there were several cross-disciplinary sessions that appraisers might find interesting. We have saved the recordings of these sessions on the Medical Appraisal Scotland website.

Scottish Medical Appraisers Conference will take place on 13 September 2023. It will be delivered remotely via MS Teams and recordings of sessions will be made available afterwards. Doctors are coming from increasingly diverse backgrounds, and we will have several sessions exploring what this means for the interactions between appraisers and appraisees. Topics include unconscious bias, active bystander, cultural competency and neurodiversity. We have also invited the General Medical Council (GMC) to speak to us about the recent review into the Good Medical Practice.

Further sessions will cover practical aspects of appraisal, such as the writing up of appraisal summary Form 4s. There will be a presentation from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lothian colleagues to discuss their journey and progress into electronic approaches to Patient Survey Questionnaires (PSQ).