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nMRCGP Curriculum

The three year training program is based on the Royal College of General Practitioners Curriculum for General Practice

Curriculum

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Work Placed Based Assessment

The Examination: CSA&AKT

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The full RCGP curriculum can be viewed  by clicking "RCGP Curriculum for General Practice"

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Clinical psychomotor skills from the Curriculum statements have been collated into one document under the DOPS section of WBA. Click here to view

Locality based learning - the 12 Competencies The Core Curriculum statement  [Being a GP]

[Communication and Consultation Skills] [Practising Holistically] [Data Gathering and Interpretation] [Making a Diagnosis/Making Decisions] [Clinical Management]

[Managing Medical Complexity] [Primary Care Administration and Information Management and Technology] [Working with Colleagues and in Teams]

[Community Orientation] [Maintaining Performance, Learning and Teaching] [Maintaining an Ethical Approach to Practise] [Fitness to Practise]

Whole day learning - the Curriculum statements 

[Being a GP] [The GP consultation] [Clinical Ethics and Values] [Evidence based health care] [Clinical Governance] [Equality and diversity]

[Management in primary care] [Information technology] [Research and academic activity]     

[Patient Safety Management] [Healthy living] [Genetics] [Acutely ill People] [Children & Young People] [Older Adults] [Women's health] [Men's health]

[Sexual Health] [Cancer & Palliative Care] [Mental Health Problems] [Drugs and Alcohol] [Learning Disabilities] [Respiratory] [Cardiovascular] [Gastroenterology]

[Ophthalmology] [Neurology] [ENT & Facial] [Rheumatology and Trauma] [Dermatology] [Metabolic]

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[Teaching, mentorship and clinical supervision]

ENT and Facial Direct link to the ENT and Facial reference material

Symptoms: 

 

Hearing loss; ear wax, otalgia; discharging ear; dizziness; tinnitus;
 

Epistaxis; sore throat, hoarseness; dysphagia; croup;
 

Goitre, lymph nodes and other neck swellings; speech delay; foreign bodies; facial weakness.

Common and/or important conditions: 

 

Otitis media (suppurative/secretory); otitis externa; perforated tympanic membrane; cholesteatoma

 

Vertigo; Ménière’s disease
 

Bell’s palsy; tempero-mandibular pain, trigeminal neuralgia
 

Pharyngitis; tonsillitis; laryngitis; glandular fever; oral candida, herpes; salivary stones; gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)
 

Infective and allergic rhinitis; sinusitis; nasal polyps
 

Nasal fracture, haematoma auris
 

Snoring and sleep apnoea
 

Suspected head and neck cancer
 

Unilateral hearing loss in the absence of external ear pathology or obvious cause.

Investigations: 

 

Awareness of: pure tone threshold audiogram; speech audiometry, impedance tympanometry, auditory brain-stem responses and otoacoustic emissions

Emergency care:
 

Septal haematoma
 

Epistaxis
 

Tonsillitis with quinsy
 

Otitis externa if extremely blocked or painful
 

Foreign body
 

Auricular haematoma or perichondritis
 

Fractured nose

Prevention:
 

Screening for hearing impairment in adults and children
 

 Awareness of iatrogenic causes of ototoxicity
 

Occupational exposure as a cause of ENT disease (e.g. industrial deafness)
 

Describe the national screening programme for hearing loss