Management of fitness to practise issues for resident doctors
Publication alert – The ‘Management of fitness to practise issue for resident doctors’ paper co-produced by COPMeD and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has now been published.
DEMEC25 – There is still time to register
Registration is still open to attend DEMEC25 in Birmingham
Joint Foundation Sharing Best Practice Event with the UKFPO 2026
Call for Abstracts is now open – Deadline for submissions is 5:00pm Wednesday 31st December 2025
Medical Specialty Recruitment 2026 – Webinar
The webinar was recorded and is available to view
Valuing your Medical Educators
Although World Teacher’s Day has now passed we encourage everyone to keep praising the inspirational educators within your organisations by sharing messages of appreciation, highlight moments of great teaching and recognise those who go above and beyond to support learning.
Small Grant 2025 Recipient Congratulations
Huge congratulations to our Small Grants 2025 Recipient Assoc Prof Wen Wang from the University of Leicester for her project “Investigating time to train for medical...
Medical Educators Awards – Results are in
Find out who were the winners and highly commended recipients of our 2025 Awards
Small Grants Call 2025 Now Closed
Application deadline has been reached to submit a bid for a small grant to support our theme: ‘Creating the space to thrive: Empowering Educational Supervisors to Deliver Exceptional Training’. We will be in touch in June 2025 with the outcome of the judging.
Medical Training Review – Call for evidence
The Medical Training Review is conducting an extensive programme of engagement and listening to ensure that doctors, educators, patients and NHS leaders have the opportunity to shape medical training in England for the future.
Official Statement Re: MRCP(UK) Exam Results Issue
We wish to share our statement following the news of the MRCP(UK) Exam Issue
State of Medical Education & Practice in the UK – GMC Report
UK risks ‘sleepwalking’ into a waste of doctor’s skills GMC Chief Executive warns – Press Release 28 Nov 2024
Toolkit for Medical Educators
We are delighted to introduce you to our new Toolkit for Valuing Medical Educators
Autumn 2024 Newsletter
The Autumn newsletter is now ready to view
Official Statement of Support for all our Colleagues
We wish to show our support to all colleagues in relation to the dreadful scenes of violence and hatred that have unfolded in towns and cities across the country
State of Medical Education & Practice in the UK – GMC Report
GMC Report published August 2024
Official Statement of Support for all SAS Doctors
We are proud to announce our official support for all SAS doctors. As dedicated advocates for their invaluable contributions, we are also pleased to officially support the SASsix and the SAS Collective.
Improving the working lives of doctors in training letter
Read NHS England and NHS WTE’s letter to trust leaders with a requirement for renewed focus on improving the lives of working doctors.
GMC research on retention of doctors
The GMC have published research on retention of doctors, investigating the trends of international migration. 13% of doctors practising in the UK who answered reported being likely to move abroad in the next 12 months and there was a gap between intention and action.
Sexual Safety in Medicine – Read the event report
The West Midlands Dean’s office hosted over 100 local multi-professional senior leaders. The event was supported by the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the GMC.
Tackling Inequalities
The 2nd annual meeting on Tackling Inequalities at the Royal Society of Medicine focused on doing so through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Enhancing Doctors’ Working Lives 2023 Report
Read about the work that has been going on and is to come in the enhancing doctors working lives report.
Standards for best practice in valuing Med Ed Leaders
In response to the GMC 2023 State of training report Medical Education Leaders UK have developed the
standards for best practice for valuing medical educators.
The state of medical education and practice: workforce report 2023
Read the report at gmc-uk.org/stateofmed
Join the conversation using #StateOfMed
The Shape of Medicine
The future of the workforce, education & training
Breaking the Silence
Report on addressing sexual misconduct in healthcare
Supporting quality and educational capacity
For the range of professionals in primary and community care
Updated Good Medical Practice
GMC release first update to the professional standards in 10 years, with important points on culture, discrimination, speaking up and behaviours. They have written to trainers, recognising the important and valuable role they play in supporting doctors.
FY1 Doctors & Locum Work
Provisionally registered doctors (foundation year one/F1) must not undertake formal locum posts or activities
GP Trainees in Secondary Care
Read Helen Cattermole’s article covering what has changed, why are GP Training needs different? How can secondary care Trusts and educators support the training of our primary care colleagues?
Calling all doctors returning to clinical work
You are invited to participate in a study investigating the efficacy of a needs assessment tool for returning doctors to promote a successful return