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nMRCGP
Curriculum |
The three year
training program is based on the Royal College
of General Practitioners Curriculum for General Practice
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The full
RCGP curriculum can be viewed by clicking
"RCGP
Curriculum for General Practice"
The RCGP
WPBA website can be viewed by clicking "RCGP
WPBA" |
Clinical psychomotor skills from the
Curriculum statements have been collated into one document under the DOPS
section of WBA.
Click here to view
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]
[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]
[Teaching,
mentorship and clinical supervision]
Cardiovascular
Direct link to the Cardiovascular reference material
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Symptoms: |
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Chest pain (cardiac causes, e.g. ischaemic heart disease, pericarditis
and aortic dissection, versus non-cardiac causes, e.g. chest
wall/musculoskeletal, psychological, respiratory, gastrointestinal) |
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Breathlessness (heart failure, respiratory problems, thromboembolism,
anaemia, obesity, malignancy) |
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Ankle
swelling (heart failure, thromboembolism, venous stasis, varicose veins,
deep vein thrombosis (DVT), leg ulcers, lymphoedema, anaemia, obesity,
malignancy, hypoproteinemia) |
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Symptoms
or signs thought to be due to peripheral vascular disease (arterial and
venous) |
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Palpitations and silent arrhythmias |
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Signs and
symptoms of cerebrovascular disease |
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Collapse. |
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Common and/or important conditions: |
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Coronary heart disease (angina, acute coronary syndromes, cardiac
arrest) |
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Heart failure |
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Arrhythmias (ectopic beats, atrial fibrillation
and flutter, narrow and broad complex tachycardias, bradyarrhythmias)
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Other heart disease (valve disease, cardiomyopathy, congenital)
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Peripheral vascular disease (arterial and venous) |
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Cerebrovascular disease (stroke and TIA) |
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lipids |
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Hypertension |
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Thromboembolic disease. |
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Investigations: |
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Blood pressure measurement |
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Electrocardiogram (12-lead ECG) |
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24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurement |
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Venous dopplers and ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI) measurement |
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Knowledge of secondary care investigations and treatment including
echocardiography, 24-hour arrhythmia monitoring, venography, invasive
procedures such as angioplasty, coronary artery bypass grafting. |
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Emergency care: |
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Acute treatment of people presenting with cardiovascular problems or
symptoms thought to be due to cardiovascular problems. |
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Prevention |
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Blood pressure |
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Lipids |
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Smoking |
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Other modifiable risk factors (including alcohol, exercise, obesity
and diet) |
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Fixed factors: age, ethnicity, sex and family history |
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Co-morbidities especially diabetes (see also the Metabolic Problems
curriculum statement) |
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Combining risk factors – risk calculation and communicating risk. |
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Understanding of the other health team professional |
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Nurse-led cardiovascular disease annual review assessments in
practice and gain an understanding of the follow-up of hypertensive
patients in the practice’s clinics that are often led and delivered by a
practice nurse. |
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Nurses in the assessment and management of leg ulcers or ankle
oedema by attending their clinics or home visits. |
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Opportunity should also be taken to observe
cardiovascular rehabilitation programmes led by physiotherapists. |
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Chronic disease management including specific disease management,
systems of care, multidisciplinary teamwork for people with established
cardiovascular problems, rehabilitation and also palliative care for
those with end stage cardiac failure |
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