# Mapping approaches to assessing post graduate qualifications for registration or membership

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [General Medical Council \(GMC\)](/buyers/general-medical-council-gmc/contract-awards)
- Published: 17 August 2020
- Planned start: 13 October 2020
- Planned end: 31 May 2021
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 7dddf809-f494-421c-8d95-65d6d29f6753-376389
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-92e13197-1e8f-4f24-bb8a-274d6ade08c8

## Description

This research has two primary aims: 1\. to map how and with what rationale other bodies \(professional regulators, non-UK royal colleges, medical boards\) assess Post Graduate Qualifications \(PGQs\) and take into account practice history when considering applications for membership or registration from doctors; 2\. for countries from which we receive a high volume of registration applications from International Medical Graduates \(IMGs \), we would also like to understand what frameworks are in place for assuring the PGQs \(for example quality assurance, regular audits and monitoring\) that IMGs from those countries tend most frequently to hold, whether those are obtained in the country where they gained their primary medical qualification or not\.

## Related contract awards

- [Lay Advocacy Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-59035559-9d4d-4966-a7ad-917d81c2e1a7): General Medical Council \(GMC\)
- [Toxicology Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-63b13d2d-c216-48d6-a3a8-dd3a67306eea): General Medical Council \(GMC\)
- [Primary Source Verification for Overseas Doctors](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6fc38c8d-f182-4aa7-a7c9-d9e187a10d41): General Medical Council \(GMC\)

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7dddf809-f494-421c-8d95-65d6d29f6753-376389)