GOsC consults on guidance about students’ fitness to practise

The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) has launched a new consultation on guidance for students of osteopathy and for osteopathic educational institutions. The guidance focuses on students’ fitness to practise.

The GOsC is responsible for placing students who obtain Recognised Qualifications onto the Statutory Register in order that they may practise as osteopaths. Registration requires osteopaths to practise in accordance with the GOsC’s standards of professional and ethical conduct, the Code of Practice and Standard of Proficiency.

Osteopathic educational institutions are responsible for ensuring that only students who are capable of practising to these standards, without supervision, are awarded a Recognised Qualification.

In order to support the teaching and learning of professional behaviours, and the appropriate and consistent management of behaviour which indicates that students may not be fit to practise, the GOsC has developed the following draft guidance for consultation:

• Student Fitness to Practise Guidance for Osteopathic Educational Institutions.
• Guidance about Professional Behaviours and Fitness to Practise for Osteopathic Students.

The development of this draft guidance was overseen by the Student Fitness to Practise Working Group.

The aim of the guidance, as with all our fitness to practise procedures, is to help to ensure patient safety.

Comments are invited on both these documents by 1 September 2011.

For further information, and to respond to the consultation, visit the Consulting you page on
this website.