Sponsoring bodies in the UK

Overseas Doctors' Training Scheme

• College of Emergency Medicine
• Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
• Royal College of Anaesthetists
• Royal College of General Practitioners 
• Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
• Royal College of Ophthalmologists
• Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
• Royal College of Pathologists
• Royal College of Physicians of London
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Postgraduate Institution Sponsoring Bodies

• Atkinson Morley Department of Neurosurgery, St George's Hospital
• Imperial College, London
• Institute of Psychiatry, London
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
• Royal Free Hospital
• University of Buckingham School of Medicine
• University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

University Heads of Department

Several University departments operate sponsorship schemes for doctors wishing to undertake a postgraduate degree or research project in the UK. Please contact the relevant academic heads of the departments and they will be able to advise you if they are approved sponsors for the purposes of GMC registration.