General Medical Council
Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice
A positive process to provide feedback on the performance of a student or a member of staff to chart their continuing progress, and to identify their development needs.
All activity aimed at judging students’ attainment of curriculum outcomes, whether for summative purposes (determining progress) or formative purposes (giving feedback). An ‘examination’ is an individual assessment test.
Any doctor or other healthcare professional responsible for the supervision or assessment of a student on a placement.
A detailed schedule of the teaching and learning opportunities that will be provided.
A period of clinical experience that is chosen by the student and is often taken outside the UK.
All those responsible for marking, assessing or judging students’ performance, regardless of the terminology used in any particular medical school.
A system where the clinical and basic sciences are taught and learned together. This allows students to see how scientific knowledge and clinical experience are combined to support good medical practice.
Organisations involved in the delivery of undergraduate medical education outside the medical school itself, including their staff, GP tutors, clinical tutors, NHS staff, and others in the local health economy or independent sector with specific roles in educational supervision.
A structured period of supervised clinical experience and learning in a health or social care setting (including community health services and non-NHS settings).
A first medical degree awarded by a body or combination of bodies that is recognised by the GMC for this purpose, or that was empowered to issue PMQs at the time the degree was awarded.
The regular demonstration by doctors that they are up to date, and fit to practise medicine.
The examinations and assessments that make sure all students have successfully achieved and demonstrated the knowledge, skills and behaviour set out in the curriculum.
A process in which students are responsible for organising and managing their own learning activities and needs.
A period during which a student acts as assistant to a junior doctor, with defined duties under appropriate supervision.
Parts of the curriculum that allow students to choose what they want to study. These components may also offer flexibility concerning how, where and when study will take place.