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nMRCGP Curriculum

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

Curriculum

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The full RCGP curriculum can be viewed  by clicking "RCGP 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

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]

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[Teaching, mentorship and clinical supervision]


Information technology Direct link to the Information technology reference material

Practice computer usage

 

Demonstrate awareness of coding systems in current use for effective record-keeping

 

Demonstrate the effective use of templates including the management of chronic disease and assessing risk

 

Demonstrate the use of call/recall systems within the practice to the benefit of patient care

 

Demonstrate an understanding of the connection between good data entry and improved patient health outcomes

 

Demonstrate an understanding of the power of reporting from clinical systems for personal/practice audit and data analysis

 

Demonstrate how to use the computer in the consultation whilst maintaining rapport with the patient

IM&T statergy

 

Demonstrate an understanding of information governance and privacy issues that relate to the sharing of electronic health records, and the central storage of health information (e.g. that is proposed by Connecting for Health)

 

Demonstrate effective use of expert and web-based information systems, e.g. MENTOR, PRODIGY, MEDLINE and NELH

 

Demonstrate effective use of interagency systems such as pathology links and GP–GP record transfer

 

Demonstrate how to use NHS electronic booking systems to tailor healthcare provision to the needs of the individual patient

 

Demonstrate an understanding of the IM&T strategies put forward by the NHS

 

Demonstrate awareness of the different computer systems used in practices

 

Demonstrate the ability to identify ethical aspects of clinical practice relating to IM&T, e.g. security, confidentiality, use of information for insurance company use, Data Protection Act, etc.

Psychomotor skills 

 

Demonstrate the ability to use a computer to the standard of the European Computer Driving Licence. The seven modules that make up the ECDL are:

  1. Basic concepts of IT

  2. Using the computer and managing files

  3. Word processing

  4. Spreadsheets

  5. Database

  6. Presentation

  7. Information and communication.