Genetics

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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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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]

Genetics Direct link to the Genetics reference material

Genetic services
	Describe local and national referral guidelines and guidelines for managing patients with genetic conditions
	Describe the organisation of genetics services
	Describe how to make appropriate referrals to genetics services
	Describe the support services available for those with a genetic condition (e.g. Contact a Family)
Common and/or important conditions:
	Examples of common chromosome anomalies Down’s syndrome. Turner’s syndrome. Klinefelter’s syndrome. Translocations
	Autosomal dominant disorders Adult polycystic kidney disease. Neurofibromatosis.  Huntington’s disease. Hypercholesterolemia.
	Recessive disorders Cystic fibrosis Haemoglobinopathies (sickle-cell disease, thalassaemias) Haemochromatosis
	X-linked disorders Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies Haemophilia A Fragile X
	Examples of multifactorial diseases Familial forms of common diseases (e.g. breast cancer, bowel cancer)
	Disorders with a genetic component (e.g. cerebrovascular disease, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, asthma)
	Examples of familial cancer Breast Colon.
	Examples of conditions exhibiting variable inheritance patterns Inherited forms of deafness. Muscular dystrophies
	Demonstrate an awareness of the genetic aspects of antenatal and newborn screening programmes (e.g. Down’s syndrome, sickle cell and thalassaemia), and know their indications, uses and limitations
	Demonstrate an awareness of antenatal and other screening programmes for genetic conditions and know where to obtain information on these programmes for themselves and for patients.
Investigations:
	How to draw and interpret a family tree
	How to recognise basic patterns of inheritance