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Funding Highlights

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Undergraduate medical students: 5,684. Non-UK/RoI medical students: 870 (included in number for undergraduate medical students). Additional funded medical student places (2021-22): 320; 165 + 60 GP and Community Oriented Medical Programme Track GP Enhanced Programme, 55 ScotGEM, 25 Healthcare Profession Medicine, 15 non-recurrent places. Total Medical ACT budget: £96,565,786. Medical ACT budget (allocated via ACT model): £93,303,286. ScotGEM funding (not allocated via ACT model): £4,380,000. Amount of funding per student (impacted by factors including increases in student places: 2018-19—£19,400; 2019-20—£20,000; 2020-21—£19,700; 2021-22—£18,900. Proposals from Boards approved by NES: 358. Total value of additional allocation proposals approved and spent: £9 million. Pay inflation: £1.3 million. Health Board Infrastructure/Accomodation: £2.3 million. Teaching/staffing: £3.4 million. Simulation/other equipment: £2.3 million. Miscellaneous: £1.7 million. Medical ACT baseline funding: £83.5 million.

Numbers of Undergraduate medical students by programme 2021-22

Students eligible for funding—Aberdeen: 800, Dundee: 600, Edinburgh: 654, Glasgow: 1,100, St Andrews: 221, ScotGEM: 145, HCP: 50, Total: 3,661. Remainder of UK students—Aberdeen: 136, Dundee: 107, Edinburgh: 410, Glasgow: 270, St Andrews: 155, ScotGEM: 75, HCP: 0, Total: 1,153. International students—Aberdeen: 151, Dundee: 161, Edinburgh: 151, Glasgow: 260, St Andrews: 147, ScotGEM: 0, HCP: 0, Total: 870. Total—Aberdeen: 1,087, Dundee: 959, Edinburgh: 1,216, Glasgow: 1,630, St Andrews: 523, ScotGEM: 220, HCP: 50, Total: 5,684.

* Data derived from the SFC early stats return

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