Historic medical education policy & other documents

In this section you can access historic policy documents, other documents and discussion papers relating to undergraduate medical education.

Policy documents

• Tomorrow's Doctor 1993 (1.83mb, pdf)
• Tomorrow's Doctors (2003)
• Medical students: professional behaviour and fitness to practise (191kb, pdf)
• Medical students: professional behaviour and fitness to practise – a summary (338kb, pdf)

Guidance for medical schools

• Paper to Education Committee noting initiatives at a number of UK medical schools designed to widen access to medical school, January 2008 (155kb, pdf)
• Letter to deans of medical schools concerning the sharing of information about medical students relating to their fitness to practise, December 2006 (39kb, pdf)

Discussion documents: not statements of GMC policy

• Education Committee briefing: Interprofessional Developments, Ben Griffith, January 2006 (46kb, pdf)
• Undergraduate Interprofessional Education, Hugh Barr, December 2003 (63kb, pdf)
• Patient centered care, Christine Hogg, 23 March 2004 (70kb, pdf)
• Today's disabled students: Tommorrow's Doctors, Anne Tynan, December 2006 (105kb, pdf)

Useful links from external organisations (Disclaimer)

• Royal College of General Practitioners: The Future of General Practice, September 2004 (106kb, pdf)
• LCME: Accreditation of Medical Education Institutions and Programmes, October 2004 (136kb, pdf)
• CHMS Guiding Principles for the Admission of Medical Students, November 2004 (33kb, pdf)
• CHMS Eversheds Report - Fitness to Practise in the Medical Profession, July 2001 (186kb, pdf)

Essay Competitions 

• Read about the essay competitions the GMC has run for young people