Fitness to practise
Procedures exist to ensure students on any professional degree programmes are fit to practise while undertaking training.
Those programmes of study leading to a professional qualification and/or a licence to practise will normally require students to undertake practical training. This will entail students working in professional areas with patients, children, clients or service users. The University, in conjunction with the professional bodies, has a duty to ensure the student is fit to practise while undertaking this training.
'Fitness to practise' procedures are necessary in order to:
- comply with the requirements of the professional bodies
- protect individuals with whom the student has contact during any professional training
- ensure students are appropriately prepared for entry to the profession, have developed professional attitudes and clearly understand and demonstrate professional behaviour
- protect the University against a claim from an individual, or the representative of an individual, who has been harmed by a student in the course of that student's undergraduate professional training as a result of them being unfit to practise
This kind of fitness to practise policy will be in place across a range of study programmes including medicine, anaesthetic practice, social work, teaching, nursing, clinical psychology, veterinary medicine and law.
College Fitness to Practise Committee
The College has a Fitness to Practise Committee.
Guidance document
This article was published on Jul 8, 2010