A DOCTOR has admitted telling a series of fibs on his CV to get a better job but denied putting patients at risk.

Dr Kelvin Chatoor, 40, claimed he had passed a Bachelor of Science with first class honours and that he was the top in a class of 2,700 pupils.

The GMC heard that Chatoor, whose ambition was to become a psychiatrist, had dropped out of the course before completing it.

Chatoor also falsely claimed membership of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Chatoor began embroidering his CV when applying for the post of senior house officer with the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

His application gained him a post of clinical fellow at the Queens Park Hospital, Blackburn where he stayed from August 2000 to July 2001.

But Chatoor told the hospital he held the post of House Officer at General Hospital, San Fernando, Trinidad from January 1995 to June 1996.

In fact he had only worked at the hospital for 13 days in July 1996 as a medical intern.

Chatoor told the panel that a medical intern in Trinidad was exactly the same' as an SHO in the UK.

He also admitted doing "very very little" psychiatric work at East Lancs NHS Trust, despite telling health bosses in Hereford he had.

Giving evidence, Chatoor told the panel he embellished his CV with exaggerated or false claims of past work to get ahead.

"The very honest explanation I can give was that I misrepresented and enhanced my CV to get better jobs.

"I would say I would have ultimately wanted to be at the level of consultant."

Chatoor told hospitals in Herefordshire, Kent, Plymouth, East Berkshire and Berkshire he had worked as a senior house officer in psychiatry at London's Florence Nightingale Hospital.

But he had only worked at the hospital for one month in November 2001 and that was in the women's psychiatric intensive care unit.

The GMC say this was a risk to patient safety.

Chatoor denied risking patient safety.

And apologising to the GMC for his behaviour Chatoor said: "It is an absolutely disgraceful act.

"I have bought the reputation of the profession into disrepute."

Chatoor, of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, has made extensive admissions to a list of charges before the GMC.

The hearing continues.