Learning programme · #P10
A ten-module applied professional learning programme helping doctors use Good medical practice in real clinical and professional decisions, with wider ethical, legal, regulatory and organisational context.
Doctors practising in the UK, with particular relevance to SAS doctors, locally employed doctors, consultants, resident doctors and international medical graduates. Selected material is also relevant to other GMC-regulated medical professionals and multidisciplinary colleagues.
Certificate process: Integrated final assessment + optional private reflection + course completion certificate
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How should a doctor interpret Good medical practice in real work, and how do GMC standards relate to law, local policy, revalidation and fitness-to-practise processes? Conceptual foundation. This module does not teach the detail of every later duty; it teaches how to reason with professional standards and identify the source of an obligation.
What does professional competence require across clinical and non-clinical work, and how should doctors respond when task, supervision, evidence, consultation mode or resources exceed safe limits? Focus on competence and safe clinical reasoning. Detailed consent, prescribing and capacity rules are cross-linked rather than duplicated.
How do continuing development, quality improvement, feedback, reflection, appraisal and revalidation fit together without becoming a portfolio-compliance exercise? Explains the professional and regulatory architecture; a later Appraisal/Revalidation programme will teach detailed portfolio construction.
How should doctors translate dignity, fairness, communication and patient partnership into everyday clinical behaviour, and where do consent, capacity, confidentiality and equality law add further requirements? Provides the Domain 2 professional framework and signposts the existing Consent/Mental Capacity programmes and future Confidentiality course for deeper legal mechanics.
What professional duties arise when a patient is vulnerable, urgent care is needed, harm has occurred or a complaint is made, and how do professional candour and organisational duties interact? Focuses on professional response and system interfaces. Safeguarding law and end-of-life decision-making are signposted rather than exhaustively taught.
How does GMP translate culture, respect, discrimination, leadership, supervision and support into individual professional duties at every level of seniority? Teaches professional behaviours and interfaces with equality/employment law. A later Leadership programme will go deeper into organisational design and leadership methods.
How should responsibility and information move safely across people, professions, organisations and time, and what remains with the doctor when work is delegated or referred? Focuses on continuity and distributed responsibility; detailed records/confidentiality and specialty handover protocols remain local or course-specific.
What should doctors do when patient safety is compromised by systems, colleagues or their own health, and how do professional duties interact with whistleblowing, governance and reasonable-adjustment frameworks? Focuses on recognition, escalation and support. It does not give case-specific employment-law advice or replace occupational-health assessment.
What does professional integrity require when money, relationships, personal beliefs, reputation or other interests could influence medical judgement? Deep treatment of probity/integrity and conflicts. Detailed confidentiality, research governance and employment investigation procedures remain outside scope.
How should doctors communicate and cooperate when professional statements may influence patients, the public, employers, regulators or courts, and how can the four GMP domains be integrated in complex cases? Integrative final module. It teaches principles of professional communication and legal/regulatory cooperation, not advocacy strategy or detailed litigation procedure.
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