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Tropical Diseases

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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
12 Dec 2024
Answer
16 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 12 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    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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