Understanding the importance of patient confidentiality and behaving appropriately on social media are among the professional values explained in new guidance for UK medical students.

Our new guidance will help give medical schools the guidance, pastoral care and extra support which some of their students may need.

Terence Stephenson, Chair of the General Medical Council

The General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Schools Council (MSC) have published guidance to help medical students appreciate what is required of them to be good doctors by the time they graduate from university.