Accredit your undergraduate curriculum for medical leadership

Good medical leadership at all levels has been demonstrated to correlate with high quality patient care The FMLM Medical Leadership and Management Indicative Undergraduate Curriculum aims to prepare today’s undergraduates with the skills needed to lead, and follow, effectively within a clinical setting. Covering themes such as self-awareness, acting with integrity, working effectively with others, managing resources, and improving services, each of the curriculum competencies has been mapped to the GMC’s Outcomes for Graduates.

Medical schools can apply to have their undergraduate medical programmes accredited where the Medical Leadership and Management indicative undergraduate curriculum has been embedded within a programme.

FMLM congratulate the following universities whose medical schools have been awarded FMLM accreditation:

• University of Cambridge
• University of Dundee
• University of Leeds
• University of Plymouth
• University of Warwick

Benefits of FMLM Accreditation to medical schools:

• Providing an external quality assurance that the undergraduate degree meets nationally recognised standards for leadership development
• Strengthening medical schools and their offer to prospective students
• Being listed on the FMLM website, accessible to prospective students, healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations
• Being able to use the FMLM accreditation marque for marketing and course materials
• Supporting your GMC quality assurance submission in meeting leadership outcomes for graduates 
• Accreditation is free until December 2021, saving over £1000. This offer is supported by the NHS Leadership Academy.

“The FMLM undergraduate leadership curriculum offered a really helpful framework with which to strengthen our existing professionalism programme and support our students to further develop the capabilities they will need to work effectively in the changing and uncertain world of healthcare.  Achieving this accreditation has been a real team effort and has inspired us to reflect on how we can enrich the leadership elements of our curriculum even further in the future.”
Professor Hilary Neve, Associate Head of School and Professor of Medical Education, University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School

Applicant guidance

Applications for medical school accreditation are not currently being accepted. Submissions will be opening soon, please email accreditation [at] fmlm.ac.uk for updates.