HOW TO COMPLETE THE INFORMATION SHEET SENT TO DOCTORS SPONSORED BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL
The information sheet sent to you is a very important document since it helps us to assess your eligibility to hold limited registration with the General Medical Council Please complete the sheet accurately and answer all the questions. The completed sheet should then be returned to us. If any of the questions on the sheet are unanswered, we will return the sheet to you.
Surname/Family Name Please state your surname or your family name.
First Name Please state your first name.
Other Names Please state your middle name(s).
Title Please state your title (e.g Mr, Ms, Mrs, Dr etc)
Note: The GMC will only register you in your name as it appears on your primary medical degree certificate. If you wish to use your married name or any other name, then you are required to submit original documentation to the GMC (for example, the marriage certificate or an affidavit) stating change of name.
Honours Please state any honours accorded to you (letters used after your name) e.g FRCS, MRCOG etc. (if applicable).
Date of Birth - Please state your correct date of birth (as it appears in all official documents) in the boxes provided e.g 31 05 01
Nationality Please state your nationality.
Second Nationality If you hold dual nationality eg British, please state your second and subsequent nationality.
Visa Status (if in UK): Please state what kind of visa you have got e.g student, visitor, spouse or dependent visa etc.
Address please give your current postal address in full, along with correct postal codes/zip codes. Please also provide your telephone, fax, mobile number (if available) and your email address (if you have one).
Registered address Please note that the registered address is mentioned as C/o The British Council Health Department so that correspondence from the GMC regarding your eligibility to hold limited registration is sent to the British Council directly.
The following is a list of all the EEA member states:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
The next four questions should be answered correctly after consulting the list of EEA member states mentioned above.
Title you should state the title of your primary medical undergraduate qualification as it appears on your degree certificate e.g MBBS, MBChB etc. You should mention the date when it was conferred, the name of the university (or other conferring body), the date you passed your final exams, the language in which you undertook your primary medical qualification, your first language and any other qualifications that you may have.
University please state the name of the university or any other conferring body mentioned in the degree certificate.
Country of qualification please state the name of the country from where you obtained your primary medical qualification.
Date passed final exams you should state the date when you passed your final medical exams.
Language of primary medical qualification please state the language in which you undertook your primary medical qualification.
First Language please state your first language.
Other qualifications please state any other qualifications that you may have.
Title you should state the title of your postgraduate medical qualification (if applicable).
Speciality and date awarded You should mention the speciality in which you obtained your postgraduate medical qualification and the date on which the degree was awarded.
Awarding body you should mention the name of the awarding body for postgraduate medical qualification.
If you have not passed your final examination, then please state the parts that you have passed.
Please state if you had any previous contact with the GMC and if you have got a reference number from them.
Please state if you have held limited registration before. If yes, please state your limited registration number.
You should state the speciality in which you wish to work in the UK.
Please state if you have already taken the PLAB test, you should also state the date of the test and your candidate number.
IELTS (English Language) test If you have taken the IELTS test, please state the date of the test, the name of the centre, the country where you took it and your score in each band. (even though the test results may not be valid).
Lastly, please ensure that you have put in your signature and the date in the box provided. Please note that the information sheet will not be valid if it is unsigned.
GMC reference number: PLEASE IGNORE THIS - This reference number will be awarded by the GMC once they confirm that your primary medical qualification is acceptable.
Surname Please state your surname/family name e.g Smith
Initials Please state initials of your name e.g if your name is John Smith your initials will be J and your surname will be Smith.
Date Please state the date when you complete the sheet.
Please state the details of undertaking your internship and then state all the professional posts that you have held after you passed the final qualifying examinations for your primary medical qualifications. It is important to note that the GMC does not recognise intern experience performed before the qualification diploma is awarded so that this section requires details of first the internship and then your first resident appointment after that and subsequent posts thereafter.
In the first column, you need to number the posts held by you since you undertook your primary medical qualification.
Please state the title of the post(s) that you have held in the second column. We recognise that it may not be called intern, SHO or Assistant Surgeon as in the UK, but please give the actual titles of the post(s) held by you.
For every post you need to indicate whether the post was full-time or part-time, whether it was substantive, locum or honorary using the codes provided in the third and fourth column.
You should indicate the speciality in relation to every post that you held in the fifth column.
The GMC expects that full and exact dates are given for each professional post that you held. Please note that it is not sufficient to give dates as March 1992 April 1993, it must be more precise ie 1 March 1993 20 April 1994. You should also state the number of months in each post in the column provided.
You should state the name and location (including country) of the hospital or institution in respect of each professional post that you held.
Please state the approximate number of beds in the hospitals where you held a post. This need not be exact.
Lastly, please state whether the hospitals where you held posts were teaching approved, military, general or private hospitals.
The GMC requires that you account for all your time since passing your primary medical qualification if you have spent time doing other things please state this as well eg preparing for exams, having a family etc. Please state your experience up to the time when you complete this sheet and mention the dates e.g instead of saying from Jan 99 to date you should state from Jan 99 to Jul 01. You should also state when you came to the UK.
In some countries it is common for doctors to have two or more part time appointments concurrently. As these may be in different disciplines it is important when completing this sheet that information is given about the number of hours devoted to each appointment on a weekly basis. A separate sheet giving detailed information is often helpful. In such a case it is useful to give details of the number of patients seen and cared for in each appointment.
Where a subspecialty is practised in a general department eg cardiology in a department of medicine it is important to indicate the proportion of time devoted to each section of work.
When you come to Britain to work it is also important to remember to bring your original medical undergraduate degree/qualifying diploma certificate with you and an original certified translation if it is not in English. The GMC will not grant limited registration without this. Also if you have changed your name since qualifying and wish to be registered in your changed name, please remember to bring original documentation with you showing that you have changed your name e.g. original marriage certificate with a certified translation (if it is not in English) or an affidavit stating change of name.
If you have any queries, please contact us at:
CFT Scheme - Initial Applications
Health Department, UK Partnerships
The British Council
Bridgewater House
58 Whitworth Street
Manchester M1 6BB
Tel: 0161 957 7724
Fax: 0161 957 7029 (for Health department)
Email: cftscheme@britishcouncil.org
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