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Professional, ethics and statistics covers the non-technical knowledge every consultant needs. Consent is examined through the Montgomery judgment and GMC guidance on decision making and consent, including capacity and consent in children and young people. Ethics covers the core principles, confidentiality and the duty of candour. Medical law covers negligence and capacity legislation, which differs between England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Statistics and evidence cover study design, levels of evidence, hypothesis testing, choice of statistical test, sensitivity and specificity, and measures of effect such as number needed to treat. Clinical governance and leadership cover audit, research and service evaluation, incident reporting and Never Events. These questions are short and precise, and a modest amount of focused revision secures them.
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A 54-year-old television presenter is consented for a SMAS facelift. The surgeon's practice is to omit permanent facial nerve weakness from the discussion because his own incidence is well below 1% and he judges it too rare to mention.
Which statement best describes his obligation regarding this risk?
It replaced the doctor-centred Bolam test for disclosure with a patient-centred one: you must tell patients about material risks and reasonable alternatives, judged by what a reasonable person in their position, or this patient, would want to know.
Expect some short calculations, such as sensitivity, specificity, predictive values or number needed to treat, as well as questions on choosing the right test or study design. Working from a 2×2 table covers most of them.
Yes. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 applies in England and Wales, the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 in Scotland, and the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 in Northern Ireland. The core principles, such as the presumption of capacity, are broadly shared.
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