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Conversation with the GMC's Revalidation team on 9th May confirmed that F1 trainees are emailed by the GMC registration department when their registration is changed from Provisional to Full and in that email they are informed that they need to connect themselves to the correct Designated Body Change of trainee registration status from Provisional to Full . If, after four months, the trainee is still not connected to a DB they are contacted again by the GMC to instruct them to connect themselves and warned that action will be taken by the GMC if they continue to remain disconnected. As we know that DBs/Local Offices undertake an audit around each October to ensure all appropriate trainees are connected to their DB the majority of trainees who have not connected themselves will be picked up in this audit (see email below from Andy Petherbridge for confirmation of this assumption).
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