GMC Recognition of Trainers - Are You Ready?
17 Nov 2016
The GMC has introduced new requirements for the recognition of undergraduate and postgraduate trainers. These requirements will apply to all named educational and clinical supervisors. You can read more about these new requirements here. Deaneries and Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) are responsible for collecting evidence from their named trainers on how they meet the criteria required to be a trainer. The absolute deadline for all trainers to be fully recognised is 31 July 2016.
If you are not sure where you are in this process, please talk to your local Deanery or LETB as soon as possible and/or discuss it with the Director of Medical Education or equivalent in your employing body. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have met the criteria.
The JCST is working closely with the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, which has designed specific standards for surgical trainers. These are designed to support the GMC process. You can read more about these standards here. We are also working on a portfolio within the ISCP to support trainers in recording evidence.