Electronic Portfolio of International Credentials or EPIC is a service provided by ECFMG, USA. EPIC is a service that verifies of your medical credentials.
GMC requires your primary medical qualification/ medical degree to be verified by EPIC before GMC registration. You can start this process as soon as you have your degree certificate in hand. Please note that there is no need to get your transcripts verified.
Procedure establishing an EPIC account:
- Login to their official account: www.ecfmgepic.org
- Create your own account
- They will ask for your personal details as well as details about your medical college.
- Enter you name as mentioned in your passport. Click here to read about what to do if the name on your passport and degree is different.
- You will have to pay $125 to establish your account.
- EPIC will take 1-3 days to verify and establish an account for you. You will receive an email when it is done.
Procedure for confirming your identity/ NotaryCam:
- Once your account is established, Login in to your account.
- EPIC will upload your EPIC Identification Form or the EIF form.
- You will now have to get it verified and digitally signed by using NotaryCam.
- You will receive an email through which you can schedule your NotaryCam appointment.
- You will need your passport and your laptop/mobile.(make sure it has the front camera)
- On the given date and time, you will receive a link from a NotaryCam agent.
- Open that link and your video call will start.
- The person will have a copy of your EIF form with them.
- You will be asked to check the spelling of your name and other details on the form.
- After this, you need to show the first page of your passport. Make sure that the entire passport is visible on the screen.
- Once this is done, the person will help you to digitally sign your account and the process is done. It hardly takes 2 minutes for this.
- The signed form will reflect in your EPIC account in a day or 2.
Verification of your credential:
- Login to your account and upload your credentials in the 'My credentials' tab.
- Select 'Primary Medical Diploma' while uploading your degree.
- Also, select for the report to be sent to GMC directly once the entire process is done.(If you do not do this now, you will have to pay $35 to send a report to GMC later)
- EPIC takes $80 for each credential verification. You will have to pay the fees now.
- Now comes the tricky part. If your college participates in electronic credential verification process, EPIC will directly send an email to your medical college and they will verify it electronically.
- However, if your medical college doesn't have this facility, EPIC will send a courier to your college. It needs to be signed by an authorised official(mostly the dean) of your college.
- There is an optional courier fee of $30 pounds. This is highly recommended as you can track your application and see whether it has reached your medical college.
- Once it is signed by the authorised official, the college itself has to directly courier it to ECFMG. Make sure that the college sends it, that is, there should be a college stamp in the 'From' address.
- You will receive an email once your credential is verified and you can view it in 'My reports' tab. A report will also be sent to GMC if you have selected the same prior.
Read about what to do if the name on your passport and you degree is different here.