CPD courses for doctors,
built around Good Medical Practice.
Ethics and Professionalism for doctors, plus Reflection for your appraisal portfolio, and our Probity, Professional Boundaries and Fitness to Practise libraries. Built around Good Medical Practice 2024.
What brings you here today?
Ethics & Professionalism for Doctors
Ethics & Ethical Standards for Doctors (GMC)
What it covers
For Doctors wanting ethical reasoning grounded in Good Medical Practice 2024
Consent, capacity and confidentiality, worked through clinical scenarios
Candour, honesty and raising concerns properly
Professionalism & Professional Standards for Doctors (GMC)
What it covers
For Doctors wanting the conduct, culture and competence side of Good Medical Practice 2024
Competence, conduct, workplace culture and wellbeing as a professional duty
Working with colleagues and raising concerns properly
Every course relevant to GMC-registered doctors
Fitness to Practise, Probity & Honesty, Professional Boundaries and the shared Professionalism courses are all live. Filter by topic below.
Reflection: Learning from Your Practice
For Doctors who want to record reflection on their CPD and learning
- Produce structured reflections that feed into your CPD entries
- Use Gibbs’ cycle to write accounts that show learning, not just description
Fitness to Practise: What You Need to Know
For Doctors who want to understand the GMC process before a concern ever reaches them
- How a regulator typically triages, investigates and refers concerns to a fitness to practise panel
- What a regulator needs to see at each stage to resolve or close a case
Insight: Understanding Your Mistakes
For Doctors who want to understand what insight means to a regulator, before it is ever tested
- Apply the four-pillar framework fitness to practise panels use in every case
- Write a reflective account that holds up at a hearing or at revalidation
- Avoid the six reflection failures that undermine well-intentioned accounts
Remediation: Demonstrating Change
For Doctors who want to understand what evidenced change looks like, before they ever need it
- Build a remediation plan connected directly to the root cause
- Gather the specific evidence a panel looks for, not just good intentions
How to Ensure a Similar Mistake Won’t Happen Again
For Doctors who want to show systemic learning, not just a one-off fix
- Identify the root-cause conditions behind a recurring type of error
- Show a panel or employer that the fix addresses the system, not just the incident
How to Deal with a Complaint
For Doctors who want to handle a complaint well before one is made
- Understand each stage of a complaints process and what is expected at each
- Draft an honest, well-judged response that does not make things worse
How to Avoid a Complaint
For Doctors wanting to reduce the risk of a complaint before one ever happens
- Recognise the communication patterns behind most complaints
- Apply practical changes to how you handle difficult conversations
Duty of Candour & Openness
For Doctors wanting to understand both the statutory and the professional duty of candour
- The legal test for a notifiable safety incident
- Apologising honestly without conceding legal fault
Gifts, Hospitality & Conflicts of Interest
For Doctors wanting clarity on gifts from patients, sponsored training and secondary work
- How to judge whether an interest may affect, or be seen to affect, your judgement
- Two complete worked cases, not just the theory
Probity & Honesty in Practice
For Doctors wanting to understand why dishonesty is treated differently from a competence concern
- The common forms dishonesty takes in clinical practice
- Two complete worked cases, including pressure from a colleague
Financial Integrity & Probity
For Doctors wanting clarity on expenses, secondary income and financial honesty
- Fraud patterns, undeclared secondary income and how it begins
- Why the amount involved does not change how seriously it is treated
Rebuilding Trust with Patients & Regulators
For Doctors who want to understand how trust is rebuilt after a concern
- The practical steps to rebuilding trust after a concern is resolved
- What patients, employers and regulators look for over time
Professional Boundaries in Health and Social Care
For Doctors wanting clarity on the line between professional care and a relationship that exploits trust
- How regulators think about power imbalance and trust
- Boundaries with colleagues, not just patients
Ethical Boundaries with Patients & Colleagues
For Doctors who care for people they already know, or who are navigating favouritism
- Treating family, friends and acquaintances, and when to step back
- Favouritism, with no romantic element required
Social Media & Digital Professional Boundaries
For Doctors wanting clarity on where the professional line sits online, personal accounts included
- Where the professional line sits on personal accounts
- The anonymisation misconception most professionals hold
Privacy, Consent & Chaperone
For Doctors who perform, supervise or act as a chaperone for intimate care and examinations
- The consent requirements that apply to intimate care and examinations
- What counts as fulfilling the chaperone role
Professionalism in Documentation
For Doctors wanting records that protect patients and stand up to scrutiny
- The line between an error and falsification, with a case worked in full
- How to add a late entry correctly
Effective Communication in Practice
For Doctors wanting safer handover and stronger communication with patients and colleagues
- Why handover is the highest-risk moment, with a case worked in full
- SBAR, and communicating with patients as well as colleagues
Teamwork & Collaboration
For Doctors wanting to work well across teams and raise concerns safely
- What bullying looks like, and why concerns get harder to raise with seniority
- What protects you when you raise a concern, and how to escalate
Clinical Competence & Patient Safety
For Doctors wanting to maintain competence and recognise their limits
- Recognising the limits of your competence and seeking supervision
- How regulators weigh evidence of remediation
Dignity & Non-Discrimination
For Doctors wanting to treat every patient and colleague with dignity, and to recognise discrimination
- Dignity and non-discrimination in everyday practice
- What a discrimination concern looks like when it reaches a regulator
Prescribing Standards & Guidance
For Doctors who prescribe and want clarity on prescribing standards and guidance
- Prescribing standards and guidance for doctors
- Working within your scope and competence
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What appraisal and revalidation ask of you
How many CPD hours do doctors need?
The GMC does not set a fixed number of CPD hours. You are expected to keep up to date across your whole scope of practice and bring CPD, with your reflection on it, to your annual appraisal. Your Royal College, faculty or responsible officer may give guidance on volume, so check theirs.
That makes the quality of your entries the point. A course gives you the learning, and a certificate naming the course, hours and date gives you something concrete to refer to. The reflection on what changed in your practice must be your own.
- 5 yrsthe revalidation cycle, recommended by your responsible officer
- Annualappraisal, where you discuss your supporting information
- 6types of supporting information, including CPD, quality improvement, significant events and feedback
- 4domains of Good Medical Practice 2024, which your practice is reflected against
Summarised from the GMC’s published revalidation guidance. Check gmc-uk.org for the current requirements and for how they apply to your registration.
What’s going on for you?
Four common situations doctors preparing for revalidation are in.
I’m preparing for appraisal and revalidation
Your annual appraisal looks at CPD, reflection and other supporting information across your whole practice. Ethics and Professionalism give you substantive learning to write up, and Reflection helps you turn it into an honest account of what changed.
My trust or employer has asked for specific training
Candour, record-keeping, boundaries or communication training requested as part of an employer or governance requirement.
I want a refresher on Good Medical Practice 2024
The GMC’s own wording, applied to decisions doctors actually face, not a generic ethics framework relabelled.
I want to build reflective practice as a habit
An ongoing discipline that strengthens over successive appraisal years, not a one-off exercise before the deadline.
What makes our GMC courses different from generic CPD
Built against Good Medical Practice 2024
Every lesson is anchored in the four domains of Good Medical Practice 2024, not a generic ethics framework relabelled for medicine.
Written for clinical practice
Scenarios are drawn from clinical practice, including consent, candour, record-keeping, working in teams and care of vulnerable patients.
Worked cases, not abstract theory
Courses include multi-step cases that tie the principles to an actual clinical or workplace decision.
A certificate that names what you completed
Issued only on passing the final assessment at 80%. Suitable evidence for your appraisal and revalidation portfolio.
CrownEthics is an Approved CPD Provider
CrownEthics is a CPD Group Approved Provider, Provider #791056, listed on The CPD Group’s public register. This relates to our status as a provider only.
Verify our provider status →- Approved CPD Provider #791056, publicly listed
- This confirms provider status only
- Course certificates are issued by CrownEthics
A certificate that shows exactly what you completed
Every CrownEthics certificate names the specific course, the CPD hours, the date and a unique reference number. It is a CrownEthics certificate of completion, useful evidence for your appraisal and revalidation portfolio.
- Course name and CPD hours stated clearly
- Unique certificate reference number
- Issued only after passing the final assessment
- Downloadable and yours to keep

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From choosing a course to holding your certificate
A straightforward process, whether you're building an appraisal portfolio or responding to a live concern.
Choose your courses
Use the situation guide above, or browse the full catalogue and add whatever is relevant.
Complete at your own pace
Fully online, available immediately after enrolling. One sitting or several.
Pass the final assessment
Score 80% or higher to unlock your certificate. Retakes are unlimited.
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GMC CPD & revalidation — common questions
The questions doctors most often ask about this curriculum.
How many CPD hours do doctors need?
The GMC does not set a fixed number of hours. You are expected to keep up to date across your whole practice and discuss your CPD and reflection at annual appraisal. Your Royal College, faculty or responsible officer may suggest a volume, so check their guidance.
Do these courses count towards GMC revalidation?
They give you learning you can record as CPD for appraisal, with a certificate naming the course, hours and date. Your reflection on what you learned and how it changed your practice is your own, so write it in your own words and check the GMC’s guidance.
Should I take Ethics or Professionalism first?
Either stands alone. If a specific ethical question such as consent, confidentiality or candour is on your mind, start with Ethics. If your situation is more about competence, professional judgement, team culture or conduct, start with Professionalism. Together they cover the four domains of Good Medical Practice 2024 in depth.
Can these courses help with my appraisal reflection?
The Reflection course is built for exactly this. It shows how to structure an account, link it to the standards and show what changed in your practice. The reflection itself must be your own.
What’s the difference between the Probity & Honesty courses and Ethics?
Ethics covers the breadth of Good Medical Practice 2024. The Probity & Honesty courses go deeper into specific areas: candour, gifts and conflicts, dishonesty, financial integrity and rebuilding trust.
Are these courses suitable if I’m not facing any concern?
Yes. Most doctors who take them are building CPD for appraisal and revalidation or want a refresher on Good Medical Practice 2024. If you are facing a live concern, our GMC Remediation courses are built for that.
Is there an assessment for each course?
Yes. Each course has short knowledge checks plus a final assessment, with an 80% pass mark to unlock your certificate. Retakes are unlimited.
Can my trust or employer enrol several people at once?
Yes. We offer team access and bulk pricing, with an individual certificate issued to everyone who completes each course. Contact us for organisation-level enrolment.
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