Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 19150

Tropical Diseases

Tabled: 10 December 2024

Answered: 16 December 2024

Question

Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst

Conservative — Solihull West and Shirley

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

Karin Smyth

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...

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