Empowering Medical Schools to Meet GMC Outcomes with MyProgress ePortfolio

Tess
May 28
3 min read

Updated: Jun 3

Meeting the General Medical Council’s (GMC) Outcomes for Graduates is not just a regulatory obligation, it is essential to delivering a robust, future-facing medical education. For UK medical schools, ensuring students are progressing towards and achieving these outcomes is a continual challenge that requires strategic tools, data-driven insight, and seamless integration across teaching and assessment.

The MyProgress ePortfolio, developed by MyKnowledgeMap, is purpose-built to help institutions and educators navigate this complexity. Designed to support students, educators, and administrative teams alike, MyProgress enables the tracking, mapping, assessment, and evidencing of learning against GMC outcomes in a secure, scalable, and user-friendly platform.

Understanding the GMC Outcomes for Graduates

The GMC’s Outcomes for Graduates sets out the core knowledge, skills, and professional behaviours that all UK medical graduates must demonstrate upon graduation. These are structured into three key domains:

Professional Values and Behaviours

Ethical and safe practice
Teamwork and leadership
Quality improvement
Self-care and a commitment to lifelong learning

Professional Skills

Communication and clinical interaction
Clinical assessment and diagnosis
Safe prescribing and data-informed decision-making

Professional Knowledge

Biomedical, psychological, and social sciences
Public health and health promotion
Clinical research and understanding the healthcare systems 1 2.

Medical schools are required to structure curricula, learning experiences, and assessments around these outcomes. Evidence of this alignment is critical, not only to satisfy regulatory expectations but to ensure graduates are prepared for modern clinical environments. Assessment methods include written and clinical exams, workplace-based assessments, reflective practice, projects, and portfolios 1 2.

How MyProgress Supports Achievement of GMC Outcomes

Comprehensive Mapping

MyProgress allows direct mapping of assessments and learning activities directly to GMC outcomes, ensuring full curriculum alignment and making it easy to demonstrate compliance during audits or reviews 1 2. This ensures that curriculum design is transparent, outcomes-driven, and audit-ready, an invaluable capability during GMC reviews and internal quality assurance processes.

Real-Time Evidence Collection

Students collect and upload evidence of skills, procedures, competencies, and reflections in real time, creating a rich, longitudinal record of progress against each outcome. This includes:

Logbooks of procedures
Workplace-based assessments (WBAs)
Multi-source feedback
Reflective entries

Seamless Workplace-Based Assessment

MyProgress supports Workplace-Based Assessment (WBA), including direct observation of clinical skills, feedback from supervisors, and multi-source feedback, all mapped to specific GMC outcomes. Mini-CEX, DOPS, EPAs and more are supported.

The platform enables students to record reflections on clinical experiences, self-care, and professional development, supporting the GMC’s emphasis on lifelong learning and resilience 1.

Educators can provide timely, structured feedback on assessments and reflections, helping students identify strengths and areas for development. This functionality ensures authentic, in-context assessment while keeping educators engaged in student development.

Supporting Student Responsibility and Self-Directed Learning

Students are empowered to take responsibility for their own learning, tracking progress against each GMC outcome and identifying learning needs.

Aligned with the GMC's emphasis on resilience and self-awareness, students use MyProgress to document reflections, record activities related to wellbeing, resilience, and professional growth, aligning with the GMC’s focus on compassionate self-care and lifelong learning 1, building habits that reinforce professional values.

Immediate and Actionable Feedback

Assessors can provide structured, real-time feedback directly within the platform. This promotes timely intervention, closes feedback loops, and encourages students to take ownership of their learning journeys. Speech-to-text functionality enables feedback to be captured efficiently.

Analytics and Reporting for Quality Assurance

Through real-time dashboards and cohort analytics, academic staff and administrators gain clear visibility into student progression across all outcome domains. Institutions can:

Identify students requiring additional support
Monitor patterns and trends
Generate audit-ready reports for external review

With all assessments and evidence mapped to GMC outcomes, MyProgress simplifies the process of providing evidence to the GMC and internal quality assurance teams 1 2.

Why MyProgress Is a Strategic Asset for Medical Schools

For Education Technologists:

Interoperable with existing university systems such as LMS and assessment systems
Scalable across programmes and campuses
Supports digital transformation goals through secure, cloud-based architecture

For Senior Lecturers and Heads of School:

MyProgress provides the tools to deliver, assess, and evidence a curriculum that fully meets GMC requirements
Provides evidence of student achievement and outcome mapping
Enhances both student engagement and institutional reputation

As Paul Mahoney, Head of Sales and Marketing at MyKnowledgeMap says,

“Medical schools must provide evidence that students’ learning is directed towards the outcomes and that students’ progress is assessed. The MyProgress ePortfolio makes this process seamless, transparent, and robust.”

Whether you’re building new programmes or enhancing existing ones, MyProgress equips your team with the tools to confidently deliver, monitor, and evidence learning aligned with GMC standards.

Ready to see how MyProgress can help your school meet and evidence GMC Outcomes for Graduates? Contact MyKnowledgeMap for a demonstration today.

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