Postgraduate Board

Contents

• Agendas and papers
• The purpose of the Postgraduate Board
• Duties and activities
• Meeting dates
• Membership

Agendas and papers

2012

• January

2011

• November
• September
• April
• February

2010

• September
• June
• April
• February

2009

• November
• July
• April

The Purpose of the Postgraduate Board

The purpose of the Postgraduate Board is to enhance our ability to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by co-ordinating our four regulatory functions as they apply while a doctor continues in postgraduate medical education. This will include the application of Good Medical Practice and other standards and ethics guidance in the context of postgraduate medical education and research, and all matters to do with fitness to practise, registration and licensing as they relate to postgraduate trainees.

Duties and activities

• Advise Council on matters relating to postgraduate medical education and training (including the Foundation Programme) in the light of Council's statutory purpose to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine.
• Exercise the powers delegated by Council in relation to sections 5(2)(c), 5(2A), 10A(2), (4) and (7) of the Medical Act 1983, as they apply to programmes for provisionally registered doctors.
• Exercise the powers delegated by Council in relation in sections 34H, 34I, 34K(2), 34M, and 34N of the Medical Act 1983, as they apply to postgraduate medical education and training.
• Monitor the exercise of powers under sections 34I(1), (2), and (3), 34K(2) and 34M as delegated to the Registrar as set out in the Schedule of Authority.  
• Advise on how the provisions of Good Medical Practice and other standards and ethics guidance can best be implemented in the context of postgraduate medical education and research, including all matters to do with fitness to practise, registration and licensing as they apply to postgraduate medical education.
• Engage widely and effectively with our key interest groups, patients and the public, doctors, the departments of health in the four countries of the UK, the NHS and other healthcare providers, and medical schools and medical Royal Colleges, to ensure we are able to best develop and promote a strategic approach to postgraduate education and training across all countries of the UK. This engagement will be one of the mechanisms through which the GMC engages with key interests.
• Work towards establishing a single continuum for all stages of medical education and training, in order to realise and optimise the benefits envisaged by the merger of PMETB with the GMC.
• Contribute to embedding equality and diversity considerations across all areas of the Board's work, and, in particular, postgraduate medical education and training.
• Develop an equality and diversity plan for its area of responsibility, for scrutiny by the Equality and Diversity Committee.

Meeting dates

The dates for meetings of the Postgraduate Board are provided in the meeting schedule.

Membership

Membership of the Postgraduate Board is provided in the governance membership section.