It will give patients and employers greater confidence in doctors starting work in the UK, wherever they were educated or trained. The MLA is taken by two candidate groups:
- All medical students graduating from UK universities need to pass the MLA as part of their degree before they can join the medical register.
- International doctors who want to join the UK medical register will continue to take PLAB which is now compliant with our MLA requirements (it'll retain its current name for the time being).
Both groups of candidates will take assessments that draw from the same topics and meet the same requirements.
