Registration certificates
Provisional registration
This certificate provides evidence of provisional registration to the Principal List on the date shown.
It gives the name, date of provisional registration, address and primary medical qualification(s) of the named practitioner.
Doctors with provisional registration are restricted to working in posts which are specifically designed to allow them to gain the necessary knowledge and skills for full registration.
For more information about the type of post doctors with provisional registration can hold, see our important information about provisional registration.
Full registration
This certificate provides evidence of full registration to the Principal List on the date shown.
It gives the name, date of full registration, address and medical qualification(s) of the named practitioner.
By law all UK and International Medical Graduate doctors granted full registration for the first time, or returning to the register after a prolonged period out of UK practice, are required to work initially within an approved practice setting.
From 3 December 2012, all UK and International Medical Graduate doctors joining the register for the first time, and all doctors returning to the register after a prolonged period out of UK practice, are restricted to practising only in an Approved Practice Setting (APS). We automatically remove this restriction from a doctor’s registration when they are revalidated for the first time after joining, or returning to, the register.
UK and International Medical Gradate Doctors who joined or restored to the register before 3 December 2012 must complete 12 months' practice in an approved practice setting (APS). For the GMC to remove reference to that restriction from their entry on the register a doctor must notify the GMC that they have completed 12 months' practice in an APS. Or, they can wait until we automatically remove reference to that restriction from their entry on the register when they are revalidated.
A list of organisations with approved practice setting status can be found on our website.
Doctors should go to our APS page to see how APS restrictions apply to them.