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22 articles tagged professionalism
Safeguarding: Children and Vulnerable Adults in Orthopaedics
You do not need to be certain, and you are not the investigator. Orthopaedics sees safeguarding concerns earlier than almost any other specialty — and the threshold for acting is lower than most surgeons assume.
OrthoVellum
safeguarding / child protection
Fitness to Practise: What Happens When a Surgeon Is Referred
The process asks whether you are safe to practise now, not whether you once made a mistake. Understanding the stages — and getting support on day one — changes how it goes.
OrthoVellum
fitness to practise / regulation
Serving as an Expert Witness: Duties, Pitfalls, Getting Started
Your duty is to the court, not to whoever is paying you — and the experts who get into trouble are almost always the ones who forgot that, or strayed beyond their own practice.
OrthoVellum
expert witness / medico-legal
Duty of Candour: What It Requires and How to Do It Well
Being open after harm is both a professional obligation and, above a threshold, a statutory one. The rules are clearer than most surgeons think — and the instinct to wait until you know more is the wrong one.
OrthoVellum
duty of candour / medico-legal
Running an M&M Meeting That Changes Something
Most morbidity and mortality meetings are a list of cases followed by a shrug. The ones that work share a structure, a classification, and an actions register that gets read out first.
OrthoVellum
clinical governance / patient safety
Informed Consent After Montgomery: How Standards Differ Worldwide
The legal standard for disclosure is no longer set by the profession — it is set by reference to the patient. What that means in orthopaedic practice, and how the test differs across jurisdictions.
OrthoVellum
consent / medico-legal
What Clinical Governance Actually Is
Clinical governance is not a committee or a mandatory training module. It is the accountability framework that connects audit, incidents, guidelines and appraisal — and knowing how it fits together makes all of them less painful.
OrthoVellum
clinical governance / quality improvement
The Medico-Legal Duties of a Surgeon: A Global Overview
Negligence, consent, candour and regulation are four separate systems with different tests and different consequences. A map of what actually binds a surgeon, and how it differs by jurisdiction.
OrthoVellum
medico-legal / professionalism
The Skills No Examiner Tests but Every Theatre Notices
Exams measure knowledge and technique. Careers are made and broken on the things no one examines — communication, reliability, and how you behave when it goes wrong.
OrthoVellum Editorial Team
non-technical skills / career
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