The safety net protecting patients
On 28 April 2017, Ian Paterson was convicted of intentionally wounding patients. Here, Charlie Massey, Chief Executive of the GMC, asks how we can all contribute to prevent this from […]
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From Wrexham to Euston: my journey to meet the GMC
Kate Hutchinson is the Director of Wipe Out Transphobia and a facilitator for All About Trans. Here, she reflects on meeting with GMC staff last year as part of All […]
Using intelligent regulation to promote and protect medical professionalism
Our Chair Prof Terence Stephenson looks at how light touch intervention by the GMC can help doctors in training and looks forward to next month’s GMC conference. One of the […]
And the winner is… Our competition for medical students
In August, we launched our summer break competition to explore why professionalism is important for medical students. This followed the release of Achieving good medical practice, the new joint GMC […]
How can the right standards empower doctors?
Professor Namita Kumar, Postgraduate Dean at Health Education North East, writes about how the right professional standards can encourage doctors to drive improvement. Imagine a world with no curriculum, no […]
Medical ethics and Hamlet – the doctor’s dilemma
At our third medical professionalism matters event in Birmingham on Wednesday evening we discussed some really emotive and challenging ethical issues. Doing what we know to be the right thing […]
The resilient doctor
Elizabeth McGrath, Head of Corporate Communications, reflects on the second of our series of Medical professionalism matters events in Newcastle last week. This time, we were focusing on resilience. She invites people […]
Doctors under pressure need resilience, not mental toughness
Following heated debates in the medical press and social media about the value of resilience training for medical students and doctors, this blog and the GMC’s #gooddoctor event in Newcastle […]
The Collaborative Doctor
Russell Cartwright, GMC Corporate Communications Manager, reflects on the first of our series of UK-wide Medical professionalism matters events which took place in Bristol last week. He invites people to […]
Medical professionalism matters – join the conversation
At our conference in March we launched a series of UK-wide events over 2015-2016 to hear directly from frontline clinicians on a number of areas we know to be of […]
