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As a newly qualified doctor with a licence to practise in the UK, you may have questions or concerns around medico-legal issues.
Whether you’re moving into a second foundation training year, looking at FY3 opportunities or applying for speciality or core training, we can offer 24-hour medico-legal advice and step-by-step support with complaints and other related issues.
Choose the MDU to stand by and support you throughout your foundation years and beyond. Join the UK’s largest medical defence organisation and request your gift below. See our subscriptions for the rest of the UK.
Join and request either a £10 Amazon e-gift OR 100 Diagnostic Dilemmas in Clinical Medicine book.
Join for your third year (after graduation) and select a pocket ophthalmoscope OR £10 Amazon e-gift. See terms.
24-hour medico-legal helpline.
Advice with responding to complaints.
Support at GMC investigations, disciplinary hearings and fatal accident inquiries.
Indemnity for work not covered by NHS indemnity.
Free indemnity for Good Samaritan acts worldwide.
CPD support including webinars, courses and e-learning.
If you’re planning an FY3 year to work as a locum, clinical fellow or other non-training grade in the UK, let us know at least six weeks before your renewal. Pay by annual Direct Debit and choose a gift.
Put your membership on hold if you're traveling or taking a break from clinical work. You can still get indemnity for Good Samaritan acts worldwide and support for issues from previous work.
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