The realisation that I have now surpassed my First5 years as a GP has been rather more significant than I anticipated.

Concluding my first revalidation a few months ago seemed an anticlimax, with no ceremony, brownie points or free pens involved. Instead came the prospect of completing a new round of PSQs and MSFs, with the resetting of the revalidation clock. It didn’t feel the same as the other five-year milestones of a ‘typical’ GP career – qualifying MRCGP, and five years previous to that, qualifying in medicine.

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