FGM training and education for medical students

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Dear University College London,

Please, can you confirm if any training is provided to your medical students during their course on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and safeguarding surrounding this practice?

Please, can you confirm in what format this training is provided (online training, lectures, clinical skills training, CBL/PBL, anatomy)?

Is any teaching on FGM examinable?

Approximately how many hours are spent on this training throughout a medical degree programme?

If you do not currently provide training on this topic, do you intend to change this in the next few years?

Yours faithfully,

A Cameron

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Dear Mr Cameron,

 

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request.

 

We can confirm that we do hold information of the description specified in
your request and this information is provided below.

Please, can you confirm if any training is provided to your medical
students during their course on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and
safeguarding surrounding this practice?

 

Yes, training is provided on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and
safeguarding surrounding this practice at UCL Medical School in the
penultimate year of the undergraduate curriculum in the Women's and Men's
Health module.

 

Please, can you confirm in what format this training is provided (online
training, lectures, clinical skills training, CBL/PBL, anatomy)?

 

Training is provided in an interactive seminar, which includes a quiz,
role play, a video of an medical student taking a history from a woman
from Sierra Leone with a urinary tract infection who has experienced FGM
before she goes in to see the GP. A woman who has experienced FGM talks to
the students about her experience and answers students' questions. 
Students also watch a 45 minute documentary about FGM before the session.

 

Is any teaching on FGM examinable?

 

Yes, all the relevant clinical material is examinable, and has been
included in assessments for at least 5 years. 

 

Approximately how many hours are spent on this training throughout a
medical degree programme?

 

3.5 hours.

 

If you do not currently provide training on this topic, do you intend to
change this in the next few years?

 

N/A.

 

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