Generic professional capabilities: guidance on implementation
This guidance is to help colleges and faculties to integrate the Generic professional capabilities framework into their postgraduate curricula and assessment processes.
Colleges and faculties are required to integrate the Generic professional capabilities framework into their postgraduate curricula and assessment processes, and this is a requirement of the curriculum standards, Excellence by design: standards for postgraduate curricula.
Colleges and faculties must also consider this guidance in conjunction with that document and the accompanying guidance Designing and maintaining postgraduate assessment programmes.
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges worked with us to produce this guidance.
Inside the guidance on implementation
- Introduction to the Generic professional capabilities framework (open at page 5)
- Principles of assessing generic professional capabilities (open at page 10)
- Putting it into practice (open at page 15)
Who is this document for?
This document is written for those working in Colleges and faculties who are developing postgraduate curricula.
Why do you need this document?
Integrating the GPC framework into postgraduate curricula and assessment processes is a GMC requirement set out in Excellence by design: standards for postgraduate curricula.
