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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

Reference material

Work Placed Based Assessment

The Examination: CSA&AKT

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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

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]

Men's Health  Direct link to the Men's Health reference material

Symptoms:

 

Dysuria
 

Frequency of micturition
 

Haematuria

 

Prostatism

 

Retention of urine

 

 Abdominal and loin pains
 

Testicular pain (orchalgia)

 

 Sore or painful penis, ulceration
 

 Erectile dysfunction
 

Testicular lumps

Common and/or important conditions: 

 

Male-specific cancers: testicular and prostate cancer

 

Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) and prostatitis
 

Other testicular conditions e.g. cryptorchidism, varicocele, haematocele, hydrocele, epididymo-orchitis and epidydimitis

 

Sexual dysfunction including psychosexual conditions, premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction  
 

Male contraception: vasectomy

 

Male infertility
 

Circumcision (religious and non-religious)
 

Mental health issues including depression, suicide and andropause

 

Sexually transmitted infections (covered in detail in the RCGP curriculum statement on Sexual Health).

Investigations: 

 

Urinalysis, MSU and dipstick

 

Blood tests including renal function tests and prostate specific antigen (PSA) test

 

Semen analysis
 

Knowledge of secondary-care investigations including prostate biopsy and testicular ultrasound.

Treatment:
 

Understand principles of treatment for common conditions managed largely in primary care – benign pro-static hypertrophy, prostatitis, sexual dysfunction, infertility, etc.
 

Injection of anti-androgens for testicular cancer.

Emergency care:
 

Acute management of testicular torsion
 

Acute management of paraphimosis and priapism
 

Acute urinary retention
 

 Acute management of ureteric colic.

Prevention
 

Health education regarding lifestyle and risk-taking behaviour, sexual and mental health
 

PSA blood test, and its role in the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer