Applying for Full Registration for International Medical Graduates who are eligible for entry to the Specialist or GP Registers

This page is to help doctors who:

• are nationals of countries outside the UK, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland who graduated from medical schools outside the UK

OR

• are UK nationals who graduated from medical schools outside the UK, EEA or Switzerland

AND

• do not have EC rights (33kb, pdf)

AND

• hold an acceptable primary medical qualification

AND

• are eligible for entry onto the Specialist or GP Registers.

 

You must have been found eligible to apply for specialist or GP registration by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) (opens in a new window).

This section provides all the information you need in order to make an online application for registration with the GMC.

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 MyGMC.

Your steps to registration

• Read this guidance (14 pages)
• Set up a MyGMC account
• Log in to MyGMC, complete your application and pay your fee
• Send copies of your supporting documentary evidence by post
• Visit one of our offices for an identity check

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

Important licensing information

The licence to practise will be introduced on 16 November 2009. To practise medicine after licensing begins, doctors will, by law, need to be registered with a licence to practise. All newly registered and newly restored doctors will automatically be granted a licence to practise when licensing is introduced. You can find out more in our licensing and revalidation guidance.