Education information for UK medical students

• Thinking about studying medicine?
• Our role in medical education
  • Standards and guidance
  • Quality assurance
• Want to know more about the GMC?

Thinking about studying medicine?

FAQs for medical students has useful information for medical students and for those who are interested in studying medicine in the UK.

Our role in medical education

Standards and guidance

We set standards and outcomes for medical education in the UK.

Our Undergraduate standards and guidance section contains detailed information about:

• Tomorrow’s Doctors
  The standards that medical schools must achieve and what is required of students in order to graduate. Set by the GMC.
• Medical students: professional values and fitness to practise
  Guidance on professional behaviour expected of medical students. Jointly developed by the GMC and the Medical Schools Council, which represents the medical schools
• Gateways to the professions
  Advisory guidance for medical schools on encouraging disabled students through their studies. Developed by the GMC and partners.

For information about the Foundation Programme and specialty including GP training, please see the Postgraduate education and training section.

Professional values in action

Our interactive website Medical students: professional values in action brings to life the principles in our guidance Medical students: professional values and fitness to practise.

You can participate in case studies, 'spot the mistake' in various scenarios, and take a quiz.

Quality assurance

We test whether schools meet the requirements set out in our standards and guidance through quality assurance activity. We arrange for experts to visit the schools, inspect what goes on and discuss local arrangements.

We publish what we find out on our website. The medical schools also provide information to us in annual reports, and we receive information from other areas of GMC work and other regulators.

We also respond to concerns raised by students, medical schools, or patients, and arrange additional checks of schools if there is evidence that requires investigation.

Want to know more about the GMC?

Visit our Information for medical students page.