CFS is on the MLA list of topics that must be taught to UK medical students from 2024/2025

[Dolphin]

 

[Andy]

From the document linked in the last tweet above.
"Published September 2019 | Updated March 2021"

So not a new change by the look of it.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Interestingly, if doctors are obliged to be taught about CFS, then they will have to be taught about ME/CFS now, since NICE guidelines form the centrepiece of this sort of requirement.

I am not sure why this relates to 2024-5 though.

 

[Shadrach Loom]

Also interestingly, the document classes CFS in the neuroscientific domain as well as in the primary care categpry.

 

[RedFox]

This seems like concrete and significant progress!

 

[DokaGirl]

Let's also have this training in Canada.

Maybe it has recently been included in medical curriculums, I don't know.

However, as I've said on other posts, a medical student I met last year, who had completed a significant portion of his training had never heard of ME.

 

[Ariel]

Is there any way to get details or confirmation of what is actually being taught? Learning something wrong is often worse than not learning anything at all. The NICE Guidelines now existing is reassuring, but isn't it up to the medical schools how it's all framed?