General Medical Council

For deaneries and royal colleges

Contents

• The state of medical education and practice in the UK: 2012
• Continuing professional development
• The Trainee Doctor
• Standards for curricula and assessment systems
• Quality Improvement Framework
• National training surveys
• Standards and ethics guidance for doctors

The state of medical education and practice in the UK: 2012

Our second annual report on the state of medical education and practice in the UK sets out much of what we know about the medical profession and the challenges it faces, drawing on our own data and, where appropriate, data from other sources. This year our report is accompanied by an online data app, which allows you to conduct your own analysis on some of the data from the report.

Email pdf: The state of medical education and practice in the UK: 2012

Continuing professional development

This guidance explains what we expect doctors to do to keep their knowledge and skills up to date throughout their working life through continuing professional development. It aims to help doctors as they reflect on their practice and prepare for their annual appraisal and revalidation.

Email pdf: Continuing professional development: guidance for all doctors

The Trainee Doctor

We set the standards for medical education and training that doctors should receive during foundation and specialty including GP training. The Trainee Doctor sets out these standards for all providers of foundation and specialty training and for deaneries.

Web version (abridged): View The Trainee Doctor
Email pdf: The Trainee Doctor

Standards for curricula and assessment systems

This publication sets out the standards and requirements that medical royal colleges, faculties and specialty associations must apply when developing curricula and assessment systems.

Email pdf: Standards for curricula and assessment systems
Email pdf (supplementary guidance):

• Workplace Based Assessment – A guide for implementation
• Reliability issues in the assessment of small cohorts

Quality Improvement Framework

This is a single overarching quality improvement framework that links together all of our quality assurance activities for specialty including GP training.

Email pdf: Quality Improvement Framework

National training surveys

The national training surveys are a core part of the work that we carry out each year to monitor the quality of medical education and training in the UK.

Email pdf: National training survey 2012: key findings

You can also find reports from the national training surveys done since 2006 on our survey results page (full website).

Standards and ethics guidance for doctors

Our core guidance is Good Medical Practice, which sets out the principles and values on which good practice is founded.

Web version: View Good Medical Practice
Email pdf: Good Medical Practice

We also publish guidance on issues such as reporting gunshot and knife wounds, raising and acting on concerns about patient safety, and obtaining consent to treatment from children. You can read all our standards and ethics guidance for doctors on the publications page for doctors.