In the UK, each medical school is free to set its own curriculum, following guidelines set down by the General Medical Council (GMC) concerning the skills, knowledge and attitudes a newly graduated doctor should achieve. The medical schools are subject to visitations by the GMC to see how the guidance as been interpreted. An important part of the GMC guidance is contained in paragraph 14b of Good Medical Practice 2012 (1), which states that “In providing care you must provide effective treatments based on the best available evidence”. It might therefore seem obvious that the curriculum should be based on evidence-based medicine and provide students with the skills needed to gather, interpret and evaluate clinical evidence. Complementary and alternative treatments for which there is no evidence of efficacy or safety should, presumably, be dismissed by medical teachers.