Standards, guidance and curricula
We work to make sure that education and training outcomes prepare doctors to deliver good, safe patient care across the UK. As part of this, we set the standards and expected outcomes for medical education and training in the UK.
Standards and outcomes
We set the standards expected of medical training organisations. We also set the outcomes students and doctors in training should achieve. Our five publications set out in detail what these standards and outcomes are.
Guidance
To help you apply our standards in practice we produce guidance. This guidance outlines how our standards and outcomes can be met and looks at over a dozen areas in more detail.
Position statements
Sometimes we are asked for help in interpreting our guidance. Our section on position statements looks at areas where we've been asked to provide more help. The latest five statements are listed below.
Medical education projects
Medicine never stops changing and improving, so education and training must keep up. Our projects tackle any subject which may impact on education now and in the future. The latest five projects we've been working on are listed below.
Curricula
We make sure that royal colleges meet the standards we set to deliver high quality training. We approve the curricula they create for 65 specialties and 31 sub-specialties.