Doctors' health and fitness to practise: assessment models.
The assessment of doctors' health and fitness to practise is recognized as a specialist area of occupational medicine practice. This paper will consider the involvement of specialists from a variety of disciplines in the overall assessment process and will discuss some current assessment models. The paper will make recommendations for further developments in this area.
Harrison
John
J
Workplace Health and Wellbeing, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK. john.harrison@imperial.nhs.uk
D002983:Clinical Competence; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000592:standards; D010815:Physician Impairment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*