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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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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]
Neurology
Direct link to the Neurology
reference material
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Symptoms: |
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Headache |
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Vertigo/dizziness (neurological, otological, psychological and
cardiovascular causes) |
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Tremor |
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Neuropathies |
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Seizures |
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Abnormal movements/chorea |
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Drowsiness |
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Loss of consciousness and coma |
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Common and/or important conditions: |
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Epilepsy |
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Common causes of headache – tension headache, migraine, cluster
headache, cervical neuralgia, sinusitis, dental pain, drug rebound
headache |
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Important causes of headache – raised intracranial
pressure, thunderclap headache (subarachnoid haemorrhage, enlarging
aneurism or migraine), temporal arteritis, trigeminal neuralgia, herpes
zoster, cancers |
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Brain infections – meningitis, encephalitis, brain abscess,
tuberculosis, HIV |
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Neurological causes of vertigo – stroke (brainstem and
cerebellar haemorrhage/infarction), multiple sclerosis, trauma and
concussion, acoustic neuroma, brain tumours |
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Mononeuropathies – trigeminal neuralgia, Bell’s palsy, carpal tunnel
syndrome, nerve entrapments, e.g. ulnar, sciatic and femoral nerve |
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Polyneuropathies – metabolic causes (diabetes, alcohol, vitamin B12 and
folate, porphyria, uraemia, infectious causes (e.g. Guillain-Barré, post
viral, HIV), drugs induced neuropathy |
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Multiple sclerosis |
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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Essential tremor |
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Parkinson’s disease |
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Congenital conditions, e.g. cerebral palsy, spina bifida |
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Genetic conditions, e.g. Huntingdon’s disease |
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Investigations: |
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Knowledge of secondary care investigations and treatment including:
electroencephalography (EEG), com¬puterised tomography (CT) and magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI), nerve conduction studies. |
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Emergency care: |
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Acute management of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia |
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Acute management of people presenting with collapse, loss of
consciousness or coma |
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Understand indications for emergency referral of people with stroke,
intra-cranial haemorrhage, raised intracranial pressure and temporal
arteritis |
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Treatment: |
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Understand principles of treatment for common conditions managed largely
in primary care – epilepsy, headaches, vertigo, neuropathic pain,
mononeuropathies, essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. |
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Prevention |
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Health education and
accident prevention advice for people with epilepsy |
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Vaccination for
meningococcal disease |
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Understand avoidance of
triggers and prophylaxis for migraine |
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