1.There is a gap in the undergraduate teaching of occupational medicine (OM) to medical students and drastic interventions are needed to improve their learning in this essential field 2.The most recent surveys of OM content in undergraduate medical teaching are more than a decade old and updated information is vital 3.Even with the limited and outdated information available, it is clear that few UK medical schools offer dedicated OM modules to their undergraduate medical students and there are only a handful of medical schools with specialist OM departments or units 4.The current level of undergraduate OM training in medical schools is failing to prepare medical students who will need a substantial grounding in occupational health regardless of their future specialty-a compulsory minimum number of hours of undergraduate OM training would be a useful starting point 5.More OM content in undergraduate courses, as well as a core OM curriculum taught as a separate study unit, would help encourage doctors to choose OM as a specialty.
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