General Medical Council consultation on a Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA), designed to create a common threshold for entry on to the UK medical register. This would create a single, objective demonstration that those who obtain registration with a licence to practise medicine in the UK can meet a common threshold for safe practice.
The College agrees with the aim of creating the MLA, to help ensure a uniform standard is applied to assist in maintaining safe practice in the UK. The main areas to be tested should include medical knowledge, patient safety, prescribing, medical ethics and practical issues concerning the beginning of medical practice. However, the College response raises some concerns about the proposed level of the MLA, and a longer timescale for introduction is suggested.
