Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice

Applying for registration with a licence to practise – for International Medical Graduates who have completed an internship in the UK

You have three months to submit your application from when you start it online. If you have not submitted your application after three months you will have to start a new one. Instructions on setting up your online account are given at the end of this guidance.

This page is to help doctors who:

  • Are a national of a country outside the UK, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland who graduated from a medical school outside the UK

OR

  • Are a UK national who has graduated from a medical school outside the UK, EEA or Switzerland

AND

AND

  • Have completed an internship in the UK

For your first 12 months of full registration with a licence to practise you will be required to work within an approved practice setting. This means that you will only be able to work in settings that have been approved by us as having in place sufficiently supportive and quality assurance systems aimed at improving quality.

Find out more about approved practice settings (opens in a new window).
Your application will be an online application.  At the end of this guidance you will be given a link to enter our secure web portal which is called GMC Online.

Your next steps

  • Read this guidance including the important information below (10 pages)
  • Log in, complete your application and pay your fee

There is more information about these steps on the following pages of this guidance.

 

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