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Student professionalism and fitness to practice guidance for medical students and schools
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Achieving good medical practice: guidance for medical students
Medical students must demonstrate a high standard of behaviour at all times: justifying the trust placed in them as future members of the profession. This guidance outlines the standards expected of medcal students – both inside and outside their course or placement – and shows how the principles and values of Good medical practice apply to medical students.
Professional behaviour and fitness to practise
This guidance is aimed at medical school and university staff, and placement provider organisations who identify, manage and support students whose professionalism or fitness to practise is a cause for concern.
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Further reading
The guidance on this page is designed to help medical students achieve the standards expected in Good medical practice, and help medical schools implement the corresponding requirements set out in Promoting excellence.
Good medical practice sets out the principles of good practice which all doctors must be familiar with. It is the foundation on which the rest of our guidance is built.
This document sets out the standards for the delivery of medical education and training. These standards have patient safety, quality of care, and fairness at their heart.
