GMC acts to reassure trainees

The GMC yesterday held a constructive meeting with key interest groups about the issue of examinations taken outside approved postgraduate training.

The organisations present included representatives of trainees, medical Royal Colleges, postgraduate deaneries and UK health departments.

The GMC has published legal advice it received regarding the examinations undertaken outwith an approved training programme which can be considered towards the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).

That advice was presented to the meeting and it was agreed it provided the basis of a way forward.

The GMC has also published a statement on its proposed approach to future examinations taken outwith an approved training programme.

Read the legal advice (pdf) and the GMC statement.