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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