Good medical practice (the code) describes what is expected of all doctors registered to practise medicine in Australia. It covers a core curriculum for medical students, doctors in training and international medical graduates coming […] A pilot programme of enhanced appraisal and revalidation involving over 3,000 doctors, their appraisers plus Responsible Officers and others has been in operation since 2010. As has been emphasised … The new version of the guidance has been pared down from the 2006 original, with much of the explanatory detail moved into eight pieces of accompanying guidance. This guidance sets down standards of good practice for occupational physicians and is based on Good Medical Practice (2013, amended in 29 April 2014) in which the GMC defines the standards, conduct and behaviour expected of all doctors. Good medical practice A doctor's first concern is to take care of their patient, and to do so with respect, honesty and professionalism.
Spence may be being deliberately provocative in arguing that digital rectal examination is bad medicine,1 but in geriatric and general medicine rectal examination is important other than for detecting rectal tumours or assessing the prostate.

GOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE The primary purpose of this book – published by the Australian Medical Council – is to provide, in a single source, information that is central to the professional, ethical and legal requirements of being a doctor. Annual accountability hearing with the General Medical Council 7 15. The General Medical Council has published an updated version of its core guidance for doctors, Good Medical Practice , which emphasises doctors’ role in ensuring minimum standards of care and compassion.

It sets out the principles that characterise good medical practice and makes explicit the standards of ethical and professional conduct expected of doctors by their professional peers and the community. Our "Good Medical Practice" publication sets out the principles and values that define good medical practice, and provides guidance to doctors on the standards we expect of them in all aspects of their professional behaviour. It updates and supersedes earlier guidance by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (Good Occupational Medical Practice 2010).