Nottingham GP Specialty Training Programme

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the MRCGP 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"

Each Curriculum statement is linked to reference documents for on line learning as well as references to books and articles. Click here to access the Curriculum Reference Material

In order to identify your strengths and weakness in the Curriculum, download this useful rating tool to rate each curriculum statement. This is an Excel spreadsheet so you do need to have Microsoft Excel on your PC in order to use it. If you do not have Excel installed, click here to download an Excel Viewer from Microsoft for you to install free on your PC in order to use the file.

 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]

Trainers workshops

[Teaching, mentorship and clinical supervision]

"Learning is not just teaching or being taught; rather it is the personal identification of self directed educational needs and the exploration of those educational needs, inside and outside the teaching environment" 

Please note that the Nottingham VTS Curriculum version  is a condensed summary of the RCGP Curriculum. You should also view the full RCGP version alongside the VTS version to appreciate the wider contexts of the Curriculum. The full RCGP curriculum contains additional material not covered in the condensed version