GMC Guideline Summarises: Topics covered

 

MSRA SJT GMC Guidelines essentials

This lesson introduces all 33 GMC guidelines summarised for fast, exam-focused MSRA SJT revision.
 
This GMC Guideline Summaries index provides a complete, exam-focused overview of all major professional standards tested in the MSRA Situational Judgement Test (SJT). Each topic below is summarised for rapid revision, clinical application, and exam decision-making, with direct links to the official GMC guidance for reference. Mastering the GMC Guidelines MSRA SJT framework gives you a reliable, repeatable scoring advantage in ranking and best-of-three questions.
 
All of the following summaries are structured specifically around the GMC Guidelines MSRA SJT blueprint used by examiners.

 

 MSRA SJT GMC Guidelines – Complete Overview of All 33 Topics

All of the GMC Guidelines are summarised in the following lessons:

1. Good Medical Practice. 
2. Duties of a doctor
3. Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information 4. Confidentiality: disclosing information for education and training purposes 5. Confidentiality: disclosing information for employment, insurance and similar purposes 6. Confidentiality: disclosing information about serious communicable diseases 7. Confidentiality: patients' fitness to drive and reporting concerns to the DVLA or DVA 8. Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds 9. Confidentiality: responding to criticism in the media 10. Personal beliefs and medical practice 11. Financial and commercial arrangements and conflicts of interest 12. Doctors' use of social media 13. Ending your professional relationship with a patient 14. Intimate examinations and chaperones 15. Maintaining a professional boundary between you and your patient 16. Sexual behaviour and your duty to report colleagues 17. Protecting children and young people: the responsibilities of all doctors 18. 0–18 years guidance 19. Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices 20. Decision making and consent 21. Making and using visual and audio recordings of patient 22. Consent to research 23. Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making 24. When a patient seeks advice or information about assistance to die 25. Leadership and management for all doctors 26. Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety 27. Duty of candour 28. Delegation and referral 29. Acting as a witness in legal proceedings 30. Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings 31. Writing references 32. Guidance for doctors who offer cosmetic interventions 33. Good practice in research

Each summary has links to the official GMC guidelines/GMC website.

These GMC Guidelines MSRA SJT summaries form the backbone of the professionalism scoring system in the MSRA.

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