Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice

Gateways guidance: contents

Table of contents

              Copyright
 
              Glossary of abbreviations
 
              Preface
 
              Acknowledgements
 
              Executive summary
 

1. Introduction

 
              1.1 Who should read this advisory guidance?
 
              1.2 How to use this advisory guidance
 
              1.3 The need for this advisory guidance
 

2. The importance of disabled people in medicine

 

3. GMC guidance and disabled people in medicine

 
              3.1 Good Medical Practice and fitness to practise
 
              3.2 Disability, ill-health and fitness to practise
 
              3.3 The implications of the GMC guidance for careers in medicine
 
              3.4 Medicine:an array of different careers
 

4. The legal background

 
              4.1 Disability discrimination
 
              4.2 Who is a 'disabled person'?
 
              4.3 Mental illness and fluctuating conditions
 

5. Preparing the ground

 
              5.1 The anticipatory duty
 
              5.2 The Public Sector Equality Duty
 
              5.3 Disability Equality Scheme
 
              5.4 Competence standards
 
              5.5 What does Tomorrow’s Doctors say?
 
              5.6 Training staff
 

6. Disabled students as potential doctors

 

7. Applying for medical school

 
              7.1 Encouraging disabled people to apply for medicine
 
              7.2 Course information and advertisement
 
              7.3 Accessible information
 
              7.4 Helping the applicant in their choice of school
 

8. Confidentiality and disclosure

 

9. Tests, interviews and selection

 
              9.1 Test methods for selection
 
              9.2 Reasonable adjustments to the interview
 
              9.3 Questions about impairment, health and disability
 
              9.4 Selection
 
              9.5 Justifying a decision, appeals and complaints
 

10. Providing disability equality

 
              10.1 Identifying student requirements
 
              10.2 Making reasonable adjustments and offering support
 

11. Preparing the physical environment

 

12. Student induction and support


              12.1 Health checks
 
              12.2 Support systems  

13. Teaching and learning


              13.1 What is involved in inclusive practice?
 
              13.2 Course design
 
              13.3 Clinical placements
 

14. Supporting student progress


              14.1 Assessment
 
              14.2 Students who develop an impairment or health condition
 
              14.3 Career guidance
 
              14.4 Preparation for the Foundation Programme 
 

15. Postgraduate training


              15.1 Responsibility for postgraduate training
 
              15.2 Legal requirements
 
              15.3 Responsibilities of employers towards doctors in training
 
              15.4 Induction of disabled doctors in postgraduate training
 
              15.5 Health clearance and disclosure
 
              15.6 Provisions of the UK Foundation Programme Reference Guide; and of the ‘Gold Guide’
 
              15.7 Support for disabled trainees and reasonable adjustments
 
              15.8 Support and reasonable adjustments in the case of mental illness
 
              15.9 Teaching and learning in the clinical arena
 

16. The GMC and the Medical Act

Appendix: Examples of reasonable adjustments
 
Endnotes