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Objectives: This paper describes a practical and valid technique for curriculumaudit of professionalism theme of an MBChB programme in a UK medical school. The objectivewas to match the learning outcomes of professionalism covered in an MBChB course, with theguidelines laid by the GMC in Tomorrows Doctors 2003. The benefit being to determine theissues that needs to be addressed in response to the GMC Tomorrows Doctors 2009. StudyDesign: A qualitative study design. Period: 2011. Setting: University of Glasgow. Methods: Toanalyse the learning outcomes set out in the curriculum documents. All the statements fromthe explicit curriculum, and the GMC recommendations in Tomorrow’s Doctors (2nd and 3rdEditions) were noted and the individual statements were entered into the NVivo software. Apurposive sampling procedure was undertaken to identify “professionalism” in the Year 1 and 2MBChB curricula and the Tomorrows Doctors, and a comparative content analysis completed.Results: The coverage of learning outcomes related to professionalism was between 10-20%,scattered throughout the course in different domains of the MBChB, giving a balanced weightto each outcome. Conclusion: The professionalism theme of the MBChB course has coveredall the learning outcomes of the Tomorrows Doctors in almost exactly the same frequency assuggested by the GMC according to the course requirements of Year 1 & 2. However, theMBChB course needs to be slightly modified to align it with the new guidelines by the GMC.