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<p>Undergraduate medical schools determine the content of their own curricula but
are required to integrate the General Medical Council’s ‘Outcomes for Graduates’.
These Outcomes include the knowledge, skills and behaviour that graduates must be
able to demonstrate before gaining a licence to practise medicine.</p><p>The Outcomes
were updated in 2018, with the integration of mental and social health care and caring
for people with multiple morbidities, including mental health conditions, being key
drivers for the update.</p><p>The new Outcomes specify that newly qualified doctors
must explain and illustrate by professional experience the principles for the identification,
safe management and referral of patients with mental health conditions. They must
also take action in response to factors suggesting patient vulnerability, including
assessing the needs of, and support required, for people with mental health conditions.
Newly qualified doctors must be able to explain the relationship between psychological
and medical conditions and how psychological factors impact on risk and treatment
outcome. Finally the Outcomes take into account multi-professional working, noting
that newly qualified doctors must work effectively within a multi-professional and
multi-disciplinary team and across multiple care settings.</p><p>Medical schools have
to design their curricula and assessments in order for their students to be able to
meet all of the Outcomes by the time they complete their course. Schools have until
summer 2020 to make sure their curriculum meets the new outcomes.</p>
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