Gateways to the Professions

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 Disability 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 checks

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

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 ‘Gold Guide’

15.7 Support for disabled trainees and reasonable djustments

15.8 Support and reasonable adjustments in the case of mental illness

15.9 Teaching and learning in the clinical arena

16. Registration, the GMC, and the Medical Act

Appendix: Examples of reasonable adjustments

Endnotes