Respiratory

Nottingham Vocational Training Scheme
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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"

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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

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]

Respiratory Direct link to the Respiratory reference material

Symptoms:
	Breathlessness, cough, wheeze, chest pain, sputum production, haemoptysis.
Common and/or important conditions:
	Upper respiratory tract infections: sore throats and colds, tonsillitis, peritonsillar abscess, epiglottitis, laryngitis and tracheitis
	Lower respiratory tract infections: influenza, bronchiolitis, bronchitis and pneumonia (of any cause)
	Acute non-infective respiratory problems: allergy and anaphylaxis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, pulmonary embolus, pneumothorax, aspiration of a foreign body
	Chronic lower respiratory problems: chronic cough, asthma, COPD, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, chronic interstitial lung diseases
	Lung cancer.
Investigations:
	Knowledge of secondary-care investigations and treatment including lung function assessment, computerised tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Emergency care:
	Acute management of people presenting with shortness of breath
	Acute management of anaphylaxis
	Management of exacerbations of asthma and COPD
	Understand indications for emergency referral of people with asthma, COPD and anaphylaxis.
Treatment:
	Understand principles of treatment for common conditions managed largely in primary care – upper and lower respiratory tract infections, asthma, COPD, allergic reactions and anaphylaxis
	Inhaler technique for using commonly used devices.
	Describe the indications for home oxygen therapy and home nebulisers, and evaluate individual patients’ requirements for these
	Understand pulmonary rehabilitation
	Demonstrate a consistent, evidence-based approach to antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections
Prevention:
	Smoking cessation assessment, advice and management
	Vaccination against influenza, streptococcus pneumoniae, haemophilus influenza b, diphtheria and pertussis
	Health education advice and patient self-management plans for people with asthma and COPD
	Understand avoidance of triggers and prophylaxis for allergic conditions
	Investigation of people with family history of genetic respiratory disease, e.g. cystic fibrosis.