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Before you apply guide for doctors
- Evidence of your knowledge of English
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- Before you apply guide for physician associates
- Before you apply guide for anaesthesia associates
- Help for refugee physician associates and anaesthesia associates
- What to tell us when you apply guide for doctors
- What to tell us when you apply guide for physician associates and anaesthesia associates
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Registration application finder
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- Guidance on identity checks
- Employer references for physician associates (PA) and anaesthesia associates (AA)
- Evidence of your knowledge of English for physician associates and anaesthesia associates
- Certificate of Current Professional Status (CCPS) for physician associates and anaesthesia associates
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PLAB (Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board)
- A guide to the PLAB test
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PLAB 1 guide
- What is the PLAB 1 exam?
- When and where can I take PLAB 1?
- Information on booking a PLAB 1 place
- How to cancel your booking, and our approach to other exam disruptions
- What resources should you use to prepare?
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- What can you expect on the day?
- Your results
- What do you do after you get your results?
- Are you eligible for an additional PLAB 1 attempt?
- How do you appeal your PLAB 1 result?
- Misconduct procedures
- Case study of a candidate misconduct at the PLAB exam
- Anti-bribery policy PLAB1
- PLAB and the Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) requirements
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PLAB 2 guide
- What is the PLAB 2 exam?
- How will you be tested?
- When and where can you take PLAB 2?
- Information on booking a PLAB 2 place
- How to cancel your booking and our approach to other exam disruptions
- What resources should you use to prepare?
- A sample OSCE station
- Do you require adjustments to your exam due to a health need?
- What can you expect on the day?
- How do you get your PLAB 2 results?
- Understanding your results
- What do you do after you get your results?
- Are you eligible for an additional PLAB 2 attempt?
- How do you appeal your PLAB 2 result?
- Misconduct procedure
- Case study of candidate misconduct at the PLAB exam
- Anti-bribery policy
- PLAB and the Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) requirements
- Information about the physician associate registration assessment
- Information about the anaesthesia associate registration assessment
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European Economic Area country qualifications
- Evidence of qualifications from Austria
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Managing your registration
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Revalidation
- Revalidation for doctors
- Supporting in revalidation
- Revalidation resources
- Future revalidation for physician associates and anaesthesia associates
- Revalidation Statements
- Revalidation for doctors: questions and answers
- The roles and responsibilities of stakeholders for revalidation
- The legislation that supports revalidation
- Glossary - revalidation
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Guidance for doctors’: requirements for revalidation
- Revalidation requirements for doctors
- Additional requirements for doctors without a connection
- Revalidation requirements for doctors in training
- When and how the revalidation recommendation is made
- The GMC's decision
- Restoring a licence to practise
- Appealing a decision about the withdrawal of your licence
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Guidance on supporting information for revalidation
- Guidance on supporting information for revalidation
- Meeting our revalidation requirements: overarching principles
- Continuing professional development (CPD)
- Quality improvement activity
- Significant events
- Patient feedback (or feedback from those you provide medical services to)
- Colleague feedback
- Compliments and complaints
- The GMC protocol for making revalidation recommendations
- Information sharing principles
- Switching to paperless revalidation notices
- How can patients get involved in revalidation?
- What is revalidation?
- Find your connection for revalidation
- The revalidation assessment for doctors without a responsible officer or approved suitable person
- Becoming and acting as a suitable person
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Proof of registration
- CGS directory for doctors
- Certificates of proof of entry on the register
- Confirmation of UK training
- Request a certificate to show your good standing with us
- Requesting a duplicate certificate
- Demonstrating specialist and general practice registration
- Verifying specialist and general practice registration
- Changing your status on our registers
- Appeals
- Information for doctors on the register
- Information for registered physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs)
- A doctor’s guide to GMC Online
- GMC Online guides
- A guide to GMC Online for physician associates and anaesthesia associates
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Revalidation
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- Information for physician associate and anaesthesia associate course providers
- Employing a physician associate or an anaesthesia associate
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Professional standards
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The professional standards
- Identifying and managing conflicts of interest
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- Providing witness statements or expert evidence as part of legal proceedings
- Using social media as a medical professional
- Good medical practice
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0–18 years
- About the guidance
- Assessing best interests
- Communication
- Making decisions
- Principles of confidentiality
- Accessing medical records by children/young people/parents
- Child protection
- Sexual activity
- Contraception, abortion and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Suitability to work with children and young people
- Complaints
- Prescribing medicines
- Legislation and case law
- Openness and honesty when things go wrong: The professional duty of candour
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Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information
- About our Confidentiality guidance
- Ethical and legal duties of confidentiality
- The main principles of this guidance
- Disclosing patients' personal information: a framework
- Using and disclosing patient information for direct care
- Disclosures for the protection of patients and others
- Using and disclosing patient information for secondary purposes
- Managing and protecting personal information
- Legal annex
- Confidentiality: disclosing information for education and training purposes
- Confidentiality: disclosing information about serious communicable diseases
- Confidentiality: disclosing information for employment, insurance and similar purposes
- Confidentiality: patients' fitness to drive and reporting concerns to the DVLA or DVA
- Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds
- Confidentiality: responding to criticism in the media
- Consent to research
- Cosmetic interventions
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Decision making and consent
- About our Decision making and consent guidance
- How to use this guidance
- The seven principles of decision making and consent
- The scope of this guidance
- Taking a proportionate approach
- The dialogue leading to a decision
- The dialogue leading to a decision continued
- The dialogue leading to a decision continued
- The dialogue leading to a decision continued
- Recording decisions
- Reviewing decisions
- Circumstances that affect the decision-making process
- Circumstances that affect the decision-making process continued
- Circumstances that affect the decision-making process continued
- Circumstances that affect the decision-making process continued
- Delegation and referral
- Ending your professional relationship with a patient
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Good practice in proposing, prescribing, providing and managing medicines and devices
- About this guidance
- Keeping up to date and ensuring safe prescribing
- Deciding if it is safe to propose, prescribe or provide medicines, treatment and devices
- Controlled drugs and other medicines where additional safeguards are needed
- Shared care
- Raising concerns
- Reporting adverse drug reactions, medical device incidents and other patient safety incidents
- Reviewing medicines
- Repeat prescribing and prescribing with repeats
- Prescribing unlicensed medicines
- Sports medicine
- Good practice in research
- Intimate examinations and chaperones
- Leadership and management
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Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
- Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
- About our Making and using recordings guidance
- Principles
- Recordings made as part of a patients care, including investigation or treatment of a condition
- Recordings made for research teaching training and other healthcare related purposes
- Recordings for use in widely accessible public media – television radio internet print
- Deceased patients
- Making recordings covertly
- Recording telephone calls
- Storing and disposing of recordings
- Personal beliefs and medical practice
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Protecting children and young people
- About our Protecting children and young people guidance
- Principles for protecting children and young people
- Identifying those at risk of, or suffering, abuse or neglect
- Communication and support
- Working in partnership
- Confidentiality and sharing information
- Keeping records
- Child protection examinations
- Training and development
- Giving evidence in court
- Appendix 2 - Assessing best interests
- Definitions of children, young people and parents
- Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety
- Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings within and outside the UK
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Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making
- About our Treatment and care towards the end of life guidance
- Guidance: Treatment and care towards the end of life
- Principles
- Decision-making models
- Working with the principles and decision-making models
- Working with the principles and decision-making models - cont.
- Working with the principles and decision-making models - cont.
- Neonates, children and young people
- Meeting patients' nutrition and hydration needs
- Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Legal annex
- Glossary of terms
- When a patient seeks advice or information about assistance to die
- Archived professional standards
- Ethical hub
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Learning materials
- Case study on responding to racism from a patient's carer
- Confidentiality decision tool
- A doctor’s guide to everyday leadership
- Artificial intelligence and innovative technologies
- Case study on freedom to speak up
- Consensual relationship impacting team opportunities
- Discrimination and misconduct by clinical supervisor
- Guide to the professional standards for physician associates and anaesthesia associates
- Power imbalance in clinical placement
- Prescribing for patients overseas
- Prescribing without access to patient records
- Five key points on providing inclusive care to transgender and gender diverse patients
- Relationship with former patient
- Suitability of mode of consultation
- Sustainability Q&A
- Good medical practice in action
- Child protection decision tool
- Disagreement with an occupational health report
- Disclosing medical records after death
- Sharing information with family members
- Remote prescribing high level principles
- Information for doctors on Cannabis-based products for medicinal use (CBPMs)
- A colleague’s behaviour
- Five things to know about our Confidentiality guidance and the GDPR
- Talking about end of life care: clinically assisted nutrition and hydration
- Explaining risks and seeking informed consent
- Sharing information about a patient’s HIV status
- Raising a concern about a colleague’s possible drug addiction
- CANH for doctors and healthcare colleagues including senior hospital management
- CANH for patients and families
- Raising and acting on concerns flowchart
- What is mental capacity?
- Questions about our cosmetic interventions guidance
- Whistleblowing
- Trans health
- Remote consultations flowchart
- Capacity to manage care - part 1
- Older adults
- Making decisions together: the implications of the Montgomery judgment
- A colleague’s underperformance
- Reasonable adjustments
- Disclosure to the police
- Discussing the risks of further cosmetic surgery
- Communication in end of life care
- End of life care and clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in an older person
- Involving other professionals
- Attitudes and assumptions
- Competing interests and incentives
- Talking mats
- Declaring a conflict of interest
- Laser eye surgery and time-limited offers
- Payment of fees
- Making referrals to a colleague
- Patient safety and putting matters right
- NHS referral to private treatment
- Identifying and acting on patient safety concerns
- Working with carers
- Capacity to consent to treatment and care in an older person
- Local incident reporting arrangements
- Prescription direction
- Confidentiality and potential abuse of an older adult
- What do patients think?
- A parent’s lifestyle choice – part one
- Reporting near misses
- Supporting patients to make decisions about their care at the end of life
- Supporting patients to make decisions about their care
- Raising concerns with the right person
- Missed diagnosis
- Radiologist error
- Raising concerns about the ratio of trainees
- Culture and religion
- Escalating concerns
- Escalating concerns to a higher level
- Disclosure when a patient has a serious communicable disease
- Making decisions when a patient lacks capacity
- Escalating patient safety concerns
- Reporting a crime
- Concerns about a sex offender
- Raising a concern with a regulator
- The legal protections
- Parent refuses consent – part one
- Parent refuses consent – part two
- Parent refuses consent – part three
- Disclosing information for financial audit purposes
- Disclosing information for tax purposes
- Disclosure for local clinical audit
- Parental responsibility and the child’s best interest
- Using patient information for research purposes
- Protecting children from neglect or abuse
- Sharing information when a patient has a stab wound
- Escalating concerns within your organisation
- Disclosure when there is suspected domestic abuse
- Listening to concerns from the patients’ family
- A colleague's fitness to practise
- Sharing information with non-clinical staff involved in the direct care of a patient
- Should a doctor disclose evidence of abuse without the patient’s consent?
- 'Challenging' behaviour is a form of communication
- Caring for a patient who has made an advance decision to refuse treatment
- Assessing capacity in a patient with a learning disability
- Reporting incidents and raising concerns
- Routine local incident reporting arrangements
- Disclosure when there is known domestic abuse
- Assessing the capacity of a young person when they are facing a terminal illness
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Patients document archive
- Reasonable adjustments for disabled patients
- Trafod eich gofal gyda'ch meddyg
- Talking to your doctor about your care
- Your rights as lesbian, gay, bi and trans patients
- A patient's guide to good medical practice
- Sexual misconduct by a doctor, physician associate or anaesthesia associate: a guide for patients and the public
- WtUKP – did you get it right?
- Good medical practice 2024
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The professional standards
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Education
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Education standards, guidance and curricula
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Standards and outcomes
- PA and AA generic and shared learning outcomes
- Excellence by design
- Generic professional capabilities framework
- Outcomes for graduates
- PA and AA pre-qualification education framework
- Promoting excellence
- Standards for PA and AA curricula
- Standards for the delivery of PA and AA pre-qualification education
- Outcomes for provisionally registered doctors
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Guidance
- Continuing professional development
- Credentialing
- Designing and maintaining postgraduate assessment programmes
- Equality and diversity guidance for curricula and assessment systems
- Guide to evaluating interventions (differential attainment)
- Generic professional capabilities: guidance on implementation
- Mentoring toolkit
- National professional examinations
- Out of programme (OOP)
- Programme and site approvals
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Student professionalism and fitness to practise
- Student professionalism and FTP guidance for medical students and schools
- Student professionalism and FTP guidance for PA and AA students and course providers
- Achieving good medical practice: guidance for medical students
- Achieving good medical practice: guidance for PA and AA students
- Good practice: examples submitted by medical educators
- Private life and social media
- Professional behaviour and fitness to practise
- Professional behaviour and fitness to practise – guidance for course providers and employers
- Professionalism in teaching
- Guidance for medical students on protected cautions, convictions and fixed penalty notices
- Medical student competition 2024
- Student scenarios
- Working with others
- Thought pieces
- Myths and questions about professionalism and fitness to practise
- Promoting excellence: equality and diversity considerations
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Reflective practice learning materials
- The reflective practitioner - guidance for doctors and medical students
- The reflective practitioner - workshop
- The reflective practitioner - a guide for medical students
- Self-learning: The reflective practitioner
- Reflective discussion with appraiser
- Supporting reflection
- Being a doctor and staying a person
- Reflecting on an experience: breaking bad news
- Reflecting on an experience: CPR conversation
- Reflecting on an experience: recording of mental capacity audit
- Schwartz Rounds
- Benefits of becoming a reflective practitioner
- Religious and personal beliefs
- Supporting students with mental health conditions
- Tackling differential attainment
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Undergraduate clinical placements
- Guidance on undergraduate clinical placements
- Clinical placements - What to expect as a medical student
- Community and Rural Education Route (CARER) placement at Cardiff University School of Medicine
- Palliative care clinical placement at School of Medicine, University of Liverpool
- General Practice clinical placements at Warwick Medical School
- Population Health clinical placement at the University of Manchester
- Ophthalmology clinical placement at Queen Mary University of London, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
- General Practice clinical placements at Bristol Medical School
- Interprofessional clinical placement at St Andrews School of Medicine
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Welcomed and valued
- Health and disability in medicine
- Our involvement as a professional regulator
- What is expected of medical education organisations and employers?
- How can medical schools apply their duties?
- Transition from medical school to Foundation training
- How can postgraduate training organisations apply their duties?
- Disabled doctors exist: celebrating their contribution to medicine
- How disability is viewed by patients, colleagues and educators
- Supporting the individual: reasonable adjustments and flexibility
- Moving through education - support at transition points
- A culture of support - what general initiatives are needed
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Welcomed and valued resources
- Able medics podcast
- Adapting practice, individualised support and sharing information
- Being disabled goes against the doctor stereotype
- Being proactive and planning for reasonable adjustments
- Different support is needed in different training settings
- Dyslexia support in medical training
- Lack of continuity in support after graduation
- Making the case for support in a complex system
- Misunderstandings around disability and reasonable adjustments
- Moving through training with a long term health condition
- Moving through training with a mental health condition
- Recognising the benefits that disabled doctors bring to a team
- Securing reasonable adjustments when always moving on
- Supporting doctors with fluctuating chronic conditions
- The benefits of an open and respectful team
- The importance of flexible and anticipated adjustments
- The importance of good occupational health support
- Using my experience as a vulnerable patient to become a better doctor
- Examples of reasonable adjustments
- Appendix - useful resources
- Shape of training review
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Position statements
- Absences from training in the Foundation Programme
- Approval of foundation programme training and new programmes for provisionally registered doctors outside the UK
- CPR clarification statement
- First do no harm: enhancing patient safety teaching in undergraduate medical education
- UK medical education delivered outside the UK
- Improving the national consistency and approval of sub-specialty training programmes
- Less than full time training
- National training numbers appendix
- Normalising research – Promoting research for all doctors
- Oral and maxilofacial surgery
- Our vision for the future of medical education and training
- Planetary health and sustainable healthcare in medical education standards and outcomes
- Recognising and approving trainers: the implementation plan
- Retired examiners
- Time out of training
- Transition of learners to a new curriculum
- Projects
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GMC approved postgraduate curricula
- Derogations from approved curricula
- Acute care common stem
- Acute internal medicine curriculum
- Allergy curriculum
- Anaesthetics curriculum
- Audio vestibular medicine curriculum
- Aviation and space medicine curriculum
- Broad based training (BBT)
- Cardiology curriculum
- Cardio-thoracic surgery curriculum
- Chemical pathology curriculum
- Child and adolescent psychiatry curriculum
- Clinical oncology curriculum
- Child mental health curriculum
- Clinical radiology curriculum
- Clinical genetics curriculum
- Clinical neurophysiology curriculum
- Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics curriculum
- Community child health curriculum
- Community sexual and reproductive health curriculum
- Congenital cardiac surgery curriculum
- Core medical training (CMT)
- Core psychiatry
- Core surgery
- Cytopathology curriculum
- Dermatology curriculum
- Diagnostic neuropathology curriculum
- Emergency medicine curriculum
- Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus curriculum
- Forensic histopathology curriculum
- Forensic psychiatry curriculum
- Foundation Programme curriculum
- Gastro-enterology curriculum
- General (internal) medicine curriculum
- General practice curriculum
- General psychiatry curriculum
- General surgery curriculum
- Genito-urinary medicine curriculum
- Geriatric medicine curriculum
- Gynaecological oncology curriculum
- Haematology curriculum
- Hepatology curriculum
- Histopathology curriculum
- Immunology curriculum
- Infectious diseases curriculum
- Intensive care medicine curriculum
- Internal medicine - stage one
- Interventional radiology curriculum
- Liaison psychiatry curriculum
- Maternal and fetal medicine curriculum
- Medical microbiology curriculum
- Medical oncology curriculum
- Medical ophthalmology curriculum
- Medical psychotherapy curriculum
- Medical virology curriculum
- Metabolic medicine curriculum
- Neonatal medicine curriculum
- Neurology curriculum
- Neurosurgery curriculum
- Nuclear medicine curriculum
- Obstetrics and gynaecology curriculum
- Occupational medicine curriculum
- Old age psychiatry curriculum
- Ophthalmology curriculum
- Oral and maxillo-facial surgery curriculum
- Otolaryngology curriculum
- Paediatric allergy, immunology and infectious diseases curriculum
- Paediatric and perinatal pathology curriculum
- Paediatric cardiology curriculum
- Paediatric clinical pharmacology and therapeutics curriculum
- Paediatric diabetes and endocrinology curriculum
- Paediatric emergency medicine curriculum
- Paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition curriculum
- Paediatric inherited metabolic medicine curriculum
- Paediatric intensive care medicine curriculum
- Paediatric nephrology curriculum
- Paediatric neurodisability curriculum
- Paediatric neurology curriculum
- Paediatric oncology curriculum
- Paediatric palliative medicine curriculum
- Paediatric respiratory medicine curriculum
- Paediatric rheumatology curriculum
- Paediatric surgery curriculum
- Paediatrics curriculum
- Palliative medicine curriculum
- Pharmaceutical medicine curriculum
- Plastic surgery curriculum
- Pre-hospital emergency medicine curriculum
- Psychiatry of learning disability curriculum
- Public health medicine curriculum
- Rehabilitation medicine curriculum
- Rehabilitation psychiatry curriculum
- Renal medicine curriculum
- Reproductive medicine curriculum
- Respiratory medicine curriculum
- Rheumatology curriculum
- Sport and exercise medicine curriculum
- Stroke medicine curriculum
- Addiction psychiatry curriculum
- Trauma and orthopaedic surgery curriculum
- Tropical medicine curriculum
- Urogynaecology curriculum
- Urology curriculum
- Vascular surgery curriculum
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Standards and outcomes
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How we quality assure education and training
- How we quality assure physician associate and anaesthesia associate courses
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Approving education and training
- How we approve physician associate and anaesthesia associate curricula
- How we approve postgraduate curricula
- Postgraduate programme and site approval
- Approval of trainers
- Institutions awarding UK medical degrees and the new programmes process
- New schools and programmes process
- GMC approved national PA and AA curricula
- Approved courses that lead to the award of UK PA and AA qualifications and the new courses process
- New PA and AA courses process
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Evidence, data and intelligence
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National training surveys
- National training survey (NTS) – Doctors in training
- National training survey – Trainers
- National training survey – Deaneries and NHS England local teams
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National training survey case studies
- The development of facilities questions in the national training survey
- How the national training survey helped to increase support for trainees during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
- How the national training survey improved clinical oncology trainees’ satisfaction at Belfast City Hospital
- How the national training survey improved support and training at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital
- How the national training survey improved cultures and training experiences at Milton Keynes University Hospital
- How Health Education North East England uses the national training survey to support trainers
- How the national training survey supported the Welldoctor project and improved wellbeing at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon
- How the national training survey helped to improve foundation psychiatry trainees’ experience at Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
- How Oxford University Hospitals cardiology department use the national training survey results to support continuous improvement
- How the national training survey helped to improve cultures at Glangwili Hospital
- How the obstetrics and gynaecology department at the Royal Bolton Hospital used the national training results to improve training
- How the national training survey improved training at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Enhanced monitoring
- New medical schools reports
- PA and AA proactive quality assurance documents
- New PA and AA courses reports
- Awarding bodies and new schools
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National training surveys
- Becoming a doctor in the UK
- Medical Licensing Assessment
- Students
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Education standards, guidance and curricula
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Concerns
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Information for doctors under investigation
- How we investigate concerns about doctors
- Support for doctors
- How we make decisions about a doctor's fitness to practise
- Performance assessments
- Our sanctions for doctors
- Fitness to practise of doctors explained
- Information for physician associates or anaesthesia associates under investigation
- Registrants under investigation
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Supporting you with your concern
- Can we help with your concern?
- What to expect when you raise a concern with us
- How to raise a concern with us
- What happens when you contact us with a concern?
- What happens if we investigate your concern
- Local help services
- Hearings and decisions landing
- Raise a concern
- How we can support you
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Information for doctors under investigation
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About us
- Who we are
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What we do and why
- Regulating physician associates and anaesthesia associates
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Data and research
- The state of medical education and practice in the UK
- Statistics and reports
- GMC Data Explorer
- National training surveys reports
- A guide to our research
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Research and insight archive
- Understanding doctors’ experiences of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK
- Exploring public views on the implementation of regulatory reform
- Parliamentarians and legislators’ perceptions survey 2024
- Barometer: Deep dive into workplace autonomy
- The state of medical education and practice in the UK Barometer survey 2023
- Teamworking: Understanding barriers and enablers to supportive teams in UK health systems
- Identifying groups of migrating doctors
- Evaluating the wider impacts of changes to UK medical education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Our data supporting the Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard in England 2023
- Spotlight on SAS doctors and LE doctors: analysis of Barometer survey 2022 results
- Exploring patient and public views to inform the Good medical practice review
- Barometer survey: Trainer Interviews
- The state of medical education and practice in the UK Barometer survey 2022
- The Post-Foundation Training Break (‘F3’): evaluating its impact on postgraduate medical training
- Corporate Strategy and Perceptions Tracking Survey 2022
- Our data supporting the Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard in England 2022
- Understanding doctors’ decisions to migrate from the UK
- Understanding the experiences of and attitudes towards Medical Appraisal 2020
- Changes to doctors’ working practices emerging from the pandemic
- Developing a taxonomy of UK Medical Practice
- Preparedness of recent graduates to meet anticipated healthcare needs
- Parliamentarians and legislators' perceptions survey 2022
- Understanding the experiences of Locum Agency Locums
- The state of medical education and practice barometer survey 2021
- Drivers of international migration of doctors to and from the United Kingdom
- Our data about doctors with a European primary medical qualification in 2021
- How lifelong learning for doctors is valued, managed and supported in the UK
- Understanding how external users perceive access and apply GMC professional standards
- Completing the picture report
- Audit of the fairness of decisions in our fitness to practise procedures
- Our data supporting the Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard in England
- Understanding the role of resident medical officers in the independent healthcare sector
- The impact of service change on doctors' training
- 2020 Medical Graduates: The work and wellbeing of interim Foundation Year 1 (FiY1) doctors' during COVID-19
- Good conversations, fairer feedback
- Parliamentarians and legislators' perceptions survey 2021
- Encouraging engagement from practitioners during a fitness to practise investigation
- Regulatory approaches to standards
- Corporate Strategy and Perceptions Tracking 2020
- The state of medical education and practice barometer survey 2020
- Our data about doctors with a European primary medical qualification in 2020
- Understanding patients’ experiences of referrals
- Everyday leadership
- Understanding the nature and scale of the issues associated with doctors’ induction
- What supported your success in training?
- Evaluating the trainer recognition framework
- Evaluating the impact of the Duties of a doctor programme
- Understanding communication failures involving doctors
- Our data about doctors with a European primary medical qualification in 2019
- Fairness of decisions to refer doctors to the MPTS interim orders tribunal
- What it means to be a doctor
- How doctors in senior leadership roles establish and maintain a positive patient-centred culture
- Why do many public concerns that would be better directed to another organisation come to the GMC?
- Evaluation of Welcome to UK practice
- Fair to refer?
- Corporate strategy and stakeholder perceptions baseline survey
- Patient and public attitudes towards consent and decision making
- The relationship between primary medical qualification and nationality, 2017 and 2018
- Evaluating the impact of differential attainment interventions
- Medical training quality assurance review
- Our data about doctors with a European primary medical qualification in 2018
- Best Practice in the Assessment of Competence: A Literature Review
- NHS GPs in England and Scotland face growing workplace pressures
- Evaluating the regulatory impact of medical revalidation
- Number of doctors choosing to undertake locum work rises
- Regulatory approaches to telemedicine
- Identifying unmet needs from the Gateways to the Professions guidance
- The relationship between primary medical qualification and nationality 2016 and 2017
- Our data about doctors with a European primary medical qualification
- Preventable patient harm across healthcare services
- Doctors' attitudes to consent and shared decision making
- How organisations ensure fair decision making
- The future operating environment for professional medical regulation
- Fair training pathways for all: understanding experiences of progression part 2
- The relationship between primary medical qualification region and nationality at registration
- Understanding employers' referrals of doctors to the General Medical Council
- Our data about doctors with a European primary medical qualification
- Understanding experiences of progression
- Exploring patient and public attitudes towards medical confidentiality
- Shaping the future of medical revalidation interim report
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