Gateways guidance
About the advisory guidance
This advisory guidance is aimed primarily at medical schools. It will also interest organisations involved in postgraduate medical training and many individuals, including disabled doctors, students and potential students.
It provides practical suggestions to help schools ensure that disabled students do not face unnecessary barriers to successful medical careers.
The advisory guidance originally resulted from a partnership led by the GMC and financially supported by 11 medical schools. Matched funding was provided through Gateways to the Professions, set up by the Department for Education and Skills (England), as it then was. The guidance has been to revised to take account of developments including the 2009 edition of Tomorrow’s Doctors and the Equality Act 2010.
The guidance does not lay down new requirements, quality assurance standards or ‘policies’ from the GMC or any of the other organisations involved.
Reading the advisory guidance on-line
- To read the guidance as it appears in the print version, you can use the navigation arrows at the bottom of each page Begin reading.
- For an overview of the guidance you can use the Contents page.