health assessment

health assessment

A term of art for a purposed assessment of a doctor in the context of General Medical Council (UK) fitness-to-practise proceedings. In a health assessment, the GMC sends the doctor whose practice has been questioned to be assessed by two medical examiners/practitioners—usually consultant psychiatrists—independent of the GMC, who report their findings to the GMC, including a written report on whether the doctor is fit to practise.

Patient discussion about health assessment

Q. Regarding risk-factor assessment? Hello, I am……….., I heard ACSM has recently issued a new edition of its exercise guidelines. Were any changes made regarding risk-factor assessment?

A. Are you fitness professional? I understand that you are very much interested in food guidelines. It can be difficult to keep up with the latest guidelines and standards. This is particularly true this year, which has seen new USDA Food Guidelines in January, a revised Food Pyramid in May and, most recently, the release of the 7th edition of ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. The good news is that the ACSM risk factors have been minimally revised. For your reference, here is a summary of what has and has not changed for the 2006 edition.

Q. assessment of down syndrom

A. down syndrome is a very easy diagnosis - it just need a chromosome check and seeing 3 (instead 2) chromosomes number 21. -

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/whataregd/down/