Information for medical royal colleges and faculties

This page is to help staff at medical royal colleges and faculties to find the information you need. To suggest other links you would like to see included, please email quality@gmc-uk.org.

Overview

• Key Education resources (including our Education Strategy)
• Education news
• Contact us

Postgraduate education

Standards and guidance

• Postgraduate standards and guidance (The Trainee Doctor and Standards for curricula and assessment systems)

Further reading

Further reading includes previous GMC work and reports, including:

• European Working Time Regulations
• Selection into Specialty Training
• Credentialing of medical practice

Quality assurance

Approvals against standards

• Approval of trainers
• Approval of curricula and assessment systems
• List of approved curricula and assessment systems
• FAQs: Approval of curricula and assessment systems
• Approval of training posts
• Approval of programmes
• FAQs: Approval of posts and programmes
• Approval and decommission of sub-specialties

Evidence

• Reports and action plans
• Approval data
• National Training Survey results

Response to concerns

• Process

Visits to medical schools and deaneries

• Calendar of visits
• Visit teams

Exam data

• Exam data: collection by individual trainee

Documents

• Forms
• Quality Improvement Framework

Related links

• Certification applications
• Information for trainee doctors
• Examinations and the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) 
• GMC Connect
• GMC position statement on less than full-time training - October 2011 (pdf)
• GMC position statement on oral and maxillofacial surgery – December 2011 (pdf)
• GMC position statement on moving to the current curriculum (pdf)
• GMC position statement on time out of training (pdf)