Undergraduate Board
Contents
Agendas and papers
2012
2011
2010
2009
The purpose of the Undergraduate Board
The purpose of the Undergraduate 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 up to the completion of the undergraduate curriculum. This will include the standards and outcomes for undergraduate medical education and their quality assurance, the application of Good Medical Practice and other standards and ethics guidance in the context of undergraduate medical education, the initial registration of doctors, and issues relating to student fitness to practise.
Duties and activities
- Advise Council on matters relating to undergraduate medical education and training 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)(a) and (b), 5(2A) and 5(3), and sections 6 and 7 of the Medical Act 1983 as they apply to undergraduate medical education.
- Advise on how the provisions of Good Medical Practice and other standards and ethics guidance can best be implemented in the context of undergraduate medical education and research, including all matters to do with fitness to practise, registration and licensing as they apply to undergraduate medical education, up to the completion of basic 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 undergraduate education and training across all countries of the UK.
- 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, undergraduate 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 Undergraduate Board are provided in the meeting schedule.
Membership
Membership of the Undergraduate Board is provided in the governance membership section.