Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice

Applying for full registration with a licence to practise and entry onto the Specialist Register or GP Register with a CESR or a CEGPR through the specialty equivalence route

This page is to help international medical graduates who do not hold registration with the GMC but want to practise in any of the UK health services as an honorary, fixed term or substantive consultant, or as a General Practitioner.

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