Fitness to Practise Medicine
Training to be a doctor requires more than acquisition of knowledge and skills. As a medical student and as a doctor, you will meet patients who may be distressed and vulnerable. You will be required to carry out physical and sometimes intimate examinations. At all times medical students and doctors must behave with utmost integrity and do nothing to diminish the trust placed in you by patients and their relatives. By awarding a medical degree, the university is stating that the graduate is fit to practice as a doctor and the graduate is automatically entitled to provisional registration with the General Medical Council (GMC). The University, therefore, has a duty to ensure that medical graduates meet the high standards laid down by the GMC in its guidance to the medical profession, Good Medical Practice. The University also has a duty to ensure that no member of the public is harmed as a result of taking part in the teaching of medical students. If your conduct fell below that which is expected of you by the public and the GMC, the University would have the right to terminate your course.