General Medical Council
Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice
We experience high volumes of applications from June to August and it can take us longer during this time to process applications. It is, therefore, in your interests to apply as early as possible and well in advance of the date you will need registration with a licence to practise.
You will be asked to provide an original certificate of good standing from all of the medical regulatory authorities of any countries where you have practised or have held registration or a licence outside of the UK in the last five years. Please note that they are only valid for a period of three months of the date of issue.
Please note that you may not have been required to provide this information when you applied for provisional registration with a licence to practise however it is a requirement for full registration with a licence to practise.
You will be asked to provide an original Certificate of Experience form completed and signed by an authorised officer of your UK medical school or deanery. (Note that the ‘authorised officer’ is the person appointed by the medical school or deanery who must complete and sign your Certificate of Experience).
Please contact us to obtain a Certificate of Experience form that you will need to pass to your medical school or deanery to be completed.
Please note that the certificate must not have been signed off more than 28 days before the internship was completed.
You must not undertake any post or clinical duties that require full registration with a licence to practise until your application has been processed and granted. You can check your status on the Register and the date from which it is effective online by accessing your GMC Online account. Changes to your status on the Register will only be visible from the date your full registration with a licence to practise commences.
There is more information about these steps on the following pages of this guidance.
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