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<p>Each individual medical school sets its own undergraduate medical curriculum. These
have to meet the standards set by the General Medical Council (GMC) in ‘Promoting
excellence’, who then monitor and check to make sure that these standards are maintained.
The curricula for postgraduate specialty training is set by individual royal colleges
and faculties, and the GMC approves curricula and assessment systems for each training
programme.</p><p> </p><p>There are no specific medical dermatology undergraduate training
pathways, as all medical students complete a medical degree and foundation training
to the point of GMC registration, and then students can specialise in dermatology
as part of a postgraduate core medical training and higher specialty training programme.
Dermatology is one of 30 specialties within the medicine specialty group. It is a
highly competitive specialty and often oversubscribed.</p><p> </p><p>The number of
medical specialty training places in England that are available each year is set by
Health Education England and is based on their assessment of service gaps and predicted
workforce needs. There has been a 100% fill rate in dermatology training in England
for the past six years.</p><p> </p><p>Dermatologist education and training and recruitment
in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland is a matter for the devolved administrations.</p>
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