Doctor Pathways

Plain, step-by-step admin guides for South African-qualified doctors who want to register with a medical regulator abroad. Each guide links to the official sources behind it and shows the date we last checked it, so you can check everything yourself before you pay a fee.

General information, not advice. Doctor Pathways covers paperwork and published rules only. It is not immigration, legal or career advice, and it is not affiliated with any regulator or recruiter. The regulator decides every application on its own facts. Read the full disclaimer.

United Kingdom

• How South African-qualified doctors register with the UK GMC (2026): PLAB route vs the postgraduate-qualification route, English evidence, the document checklist, the HPCSA Certificate of Status and the GMC fees from 1 April 2026.

Coming later

We plan to add guides for other common destinations, such as Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. Until then, use the regulator's own website for those countries.

How we write these guides

• Every fee and rule comes from the regulator's own published pages, linked in the guide.
• Where something isn't published or we couldn't confirm it, we say so instead of guessing.
• Each guide shows a "last checked" date. Fees usually change every year (the GMC and the HPCSA both change theirs from 1 April).