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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]

Trainers workshops

[Teaching, mentorship and clinical supervision]

Research Direct link to the Research reference material

Primary car management

 

The effective user of research will be able to demonstrate competence in the following areas:

 

 

Prioritising relevant information
 

 

Critical appraisal
 

 

Problem framing
 

 

Accessing evidence

 

 

Implementing change in clinical practice

 

 

Basic statistics

 

 

Evaluating ethical issues and the need to have projects approved through research governance committees.

Teaching and assessing others
 

Identify learning objectives
 

Use appropriate teaching methods
 

Evaluate outcomes of teaching.

 

To be able to undertake Significant Event Analysis
 

Evaluate performance across a range of clinical and non-clinical areas

 

Use of reflective skills for the benefit of oneself and other practitioners.

Understanding the basics of research 

 

Develop a research question
 

Identify appropriate methods from a range of designs

 

Be able to draw up a questionnaire

 

Demonstrate basic quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills

 

Draw appropriate conclusions
 

Summarise results

Continuing professional development

 

Identify their learning objectives
 

Choose appropriate methods of learning and teaching
 

Use reflective skills to measure process
 

Apply their learning to their clinical practice
 

Identify further objectives.