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Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-08179

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: 27 April 2022
  • Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many postgraduate medical students it anticipates will be admitted to Scottish universities in (a) 2022, (b) 2023, (c) 2024 and (d) 2025, broken down by medical school, and, of these, how many it anticipates will be Scottish-domiciled residents.


Answer

As postgraduate medical students do not form part of the controlled medical school intake the Scottish Government is unable to respond.

Universities are independent, autonomous institutions responsible for their own selection procedures and offers, with intake numbers and the breakdown of these a decision for each individual medical schools.