Applying for Registration and Fitness to practise

Doctors seeking registration with SMC are required to declare any issues affecting their fitness to practise.

The registration application form includes questions relating to criminal offences, professional misconduct, behavioural concerns, and health conditions which may impair fitness to practise as a medical practitioner. The doctor should declare matters including¹:

• All criminal offences (including warnings, stern warnings, composition fines)

• Professional misconduct in any jurisdiction

• Disciplinary actions during medical school or medical practice

• Investigations and complaints by any medical regulatory authority

• Any restriction or limitation on your medical registration/practice

• Health conditions which may affect your fitness or ability to practise as a medical practitioner

Although certain offences, conduct, behaviours, or health conditions may not necessarily impair fitness to practise as a medical practitioner, SMC requires doctors to declare truthfully and provide details for the application to be processed.

The doctor will be contacted by SMC if further details are required.

Common questions regarding such fitness to practise pertaining to criminal offences, professional misconduct and behavioural concerns can be found in the FAQs on Declaration of Offences, Misconduct and Behaviours [PDF, 124 KB] ↗ (opens in new tab).

Questions about health conditions and their fitness to practise can be found in the FAQs on Declaration of Health Conditions [PDF, 124 KB] ↗ (opens in new tab).

¹You do not need to declare any of the matters listed if they were investigated, found to be untrue and subsequently dismissed.