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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]

Healthy living Direct link to the Healthy living reference material

Preventive health management
	The epidemiology of problems presenting in primary care
	The risk factors for disease including alcohol and substance abuse, accidents, child abuse, diet, exercise, • genetics, occupation, social deprivation and sexual behaviour
	The principles of prevention and preventative strategies
	The principles of immunisation and vaccination, and the UK’s immunisation programmes
	The benefits and risks of immunisation and vaccination in order to reassure parents effectively
	The benefits and risks of screening programmes
	The importance of excellent communication and effective teamwork, the role of the public health specialist and how to access specialist public health advice
	The structure of the healthcare system and the function of primary care within the wider NHS
	The principles of health surveillance
Promoting own health
	Help the patient understand work–life balance and, where appropriate, help patients achieve a good work–life balance
	Promote health on an individual basis as part of the consultation
	Negotiate a shared understanding of problems and their management (including self-management) with the patient, so that the patient is empowered to look after his or her own health and has a commitment to health promotion and self-care
Specific solving skills
	Assess an individual patient’s risk factors
	Interpret evidence about a screening programme and decide whether it is worthwhile – for individuals or groups
	Undertake a needs assessment of a target group or service
	The impact of inequalities and discrimination on health ; The impact of poverty, genetics, ethnicity and local epidemiology
	The inequalities in healthcare provision: the ‘inverse care law’
	The structure of his or her local and national healthcare system and its economic limitations
	The roles of the other professionals involved in public health, e.g. school nurses, health visitors and public health specialists
	The scientific backgrounds of public health, epidemiology and preventative health care