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Tropical Diseases

Commons · Question 19150 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to improve the study of tropical diseases in medical school curricula.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Dec 2024

It is the responsibility of individual UK medical schools to determine the content of their own curricula. The delivery of these undergraduate curricula has to meet the standards set by the medical regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC), who monitor...