TY - JOUR T1 - Revalidation JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 324 LP - 324 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X572319 VL - 61 IS - 586 AU - Dougal Jeffries Y1 - 2011/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/586/324.1.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -