Outcomes for graduates

Medical students are tomorrow’s doctors. To meet the standards of Good medical practice, graduates must make the care of patients their first concern. Outcomes for graduates sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new UK medical graduates must be able to show.


Outcomes for graduates

Supplemented by practical skills and procedures, Outcomes for graduates sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new UK medical graduates must be able to show.

Trainer overseeing medical student
Outcomes for graduates – practical skills and procedures

Setting out the skills, procedures and levels of competence newly-qualified doctors must have, so they can practise safely when they start work.



Supplementary guidance for medical schools

We have created extra guidance for medical schools, with advice on how to put the requirements of Outcomes for graduates into practice.

  • Applying professional standards
  • Understanding the law
  • Further reading
  • Mapping to the previous Outcomes