SCOTTISH BRANCH OF GENERAL COUNCIL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION & REGISTRATION.

Report of the Education-Committee of the General Medical Council

" A grand opportunity missed," is the depressing verdict which a careful perusal of the above begets. After 1892 the duration of medical study is to be five years. If these five }?ears had been devoted to genuine medical study, we should have had nothing but congratulations to offer; but as the first of these five years is devoted to studies which are not medical, and as the last year is to be ...

Council on Graduate Medical Education

Are medical educators following General Medical Council guidelines on obesity education: if not why not?

BACKGROUND Although the United Kingdom's (UK's) General Medical Council (GMC) recommends that graduating medical students are competent to discuss obesity and behaviour change with patients, it is difficult to integrate this education into existing curricula, and clinicians report being unprepared to support patients needing obesity management in practice. We therefore aimed to identify factors...

The Registration of Medical Graduates from Eastern European Union Countries with the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Council, Ireland.

The purpose of this study was to identify the number of medical graduates registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) between 1990 and 2005, whose initial training was in Eastern Europe and who came from universities which have subsequently developed an "English Parallel" course and are now within the European Union (EU). A similar exercise was undertaken with graduates registered with th...

The General Medical Council and Midwifery