Where Christine finds her answers
Christine searches a curated collection of published teaching and selected guidance. She does not browse the live web, search your private information or read the whole of every linked website.
The collection contains 530 passages from 76 sources. This release was checked on 22 October 2026. An answer’s numbered references take you to the material used.
How to use Christine and understand her limitations
SAS Doctors teaching
The complete 19-chapter career-progression handbook is joined by selected sections on appraisal and revalidation, portfolio evidence, job applications and interviews, leadership, complaints, professional regulation and workplace wellbeing. These are educational resources, not a substitute for your contract, current local policy or individual advice.
ClinicalEdu learning
Christine can suggest relevant programmes and explain selected introductory concepts in frailty, comprehensive geriatric assessment and improvement methods. Most ClinicalEdu entries are course summaries, not the full course text. Completion certificates record learning; they do not establish clinical competence or eligibility for a post.
Official guidance
Selected GMC and RCP summaries provide regulatory and professional context. Christine distinguishes recommendations from contractual entitlements, and Specialist grade employment from specialist registration. For consultant appointments, she must preserve the GMC’s foundation-trust qualification.
The RCP job-description approval service has ended. The current AAC page takes precedence over legacy approval wording elsewhere. RCP SPA recommendations are not universal contractual minima or GMC revalidation rules.
Current limits
Detailed national regrading procedures, pay and pension calculations, legal deadlines and individual employment or clinical decisions are outside this collection’s verified coverage. Where evidence is missing, Christine should say so. Sources have review dates and can be withdrawn; a current date is not a guarantee that an external page has not changed. Open the source before acting on an important point.
ClinicalEdu and official source register
ClinicalEdu
- Frailty and Clinical Frailty Scale learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Quality improvement, clinical audit and research learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Leadership in Practice learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Mental capacity learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Consent and shared decision-making learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Good medical practice learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Confidentiality and information governance learning ↗
ClinicalEdu · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Using ClinicalEdu and recording CPD ↗
ClinicalEdu · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Understanding frailty ↗
ClinicalEdu · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - What CGA is and is not ↗
ClinicalEdu · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Choosing between QI, audit, service evaluation and research ↗
ClinicalEdu · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22
GMC and RCP
- Specialist registration and consultant appointments ↗
GMC · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Responding to complaints and being open when things go wrong ↗
GMC · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Complaints, reflection and appraisal ↗
GMC · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Empowering physicians: effective job planning ↗
Royal College of Physicians · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Educational and career support for SAS doctors ↗
Royal College of Physicians · Learning or guidance signpost · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - Writing SAS doctor job descriptions ↗
Royal College of Physicians · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22 - RCP AAC arrangements and the end of job-description approvals ↗
Royal College of Physicians · Selected editorial summary · Checked 2026-10-22 · Review due 2027-01-22