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nMRCGP Curriculum

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

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]

Babies and Children Direct link to the Babies and Children reference material

Symptoms
	Vomiting
	Fever
	Drowsiness
	developmental delay
	infantile colic
	‘failure to thrive’ and growth disorders
	behavioural problems
Common and important conditions
	Recognition of the sick child
	Neonatal problems: birthmarks, feeding problems, heart murmur, sticky eye, jaundice
	Constipation
	abdominal pain (acute and recurrent)
	Pyrexia
	febrile convulsions
	Cough/dyspnoea
	wheezing including respiratory infections
	bronchiolitis
	Otitis media
	Sensory deficit especially deafness
	Gastroenteritis
	Viral exanthems
	Urinary tract infection
	Meningitis
	Epilepsy
	Chronic disease: asthma, diabetes, arthritis
	learning disability
	Child abuse, deprivation
	Mental health problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, eating disorders, sub¬stance misuse and self-harm
	autistic spectrum disorder and related conditions
	Psychological problems: enuresis, encopresis, bullying, school refusal, behaviour problems including tantrums
	Child and young person development (physical and psychological).
Prevention
	Prenatal diagnosis
	Breastfeeding
	Healthy diet and exercise for children and young people
	Social and emotional wellbeing
	Keeping children and young people safe; child protection, accident prevention
	Immunisation
	Avoiding smoking, avoiding the use of volatile substances and other drugs, and minimising alcohol intake
	Reducing the risk of teenagers getting pregnant or acquiring sexually transmitted infections
Treatment
	Prescribe and advise appropriately about the use of medicines in children and young people, being competent at calculating drug doses, understanding the risks and benefits of medicines in relation to children
Problem solving skills
	Describe the issues involved in delivering services for young people relating to access, communication, confidentiality and consent
	Describe the importance of supporting parents who have special needs
	Demonstrate an understanding of the welfare of the unborn baby by: being aware of the impact of parental problems including domestic violence, substance misuse and mental health problems
Community orientation
	understanding the legal and political context of child and adolescent care
	understanding the organisation of care – care pathways and local systems of care
	assessing needs, including the assessment framework
	Assessing the needs of children of parents with substance misuse, mental health or domestic violence problems, teenage mothers
	Provide access for young people to confidential contraceptive and sexual health advice services
	Awareness of the impact of disability on the child, young person and their family.