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Competency areas

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

e-Portfolio

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"

Tools to monitor performance

These are CBD, COT, DOPS, mini-CEX, MSF, PSQ and CSR

Competency areas

The 12 competency areas required for WBA

Collecting the Evidence

What is the evidence

Minimm Review requirements

How often do I have to submit the evidence and how many do I have to do


Twelve areas of professional competence have been extracted from the core curriculum statement ‘Being a General Practitioner’. Click here to view the detailed descriptors of each of the competency areas.

  1. Communication and Consultation Skills - communication with patients and the use of recognised consultation techniques.

  2. Practising Holistically - the ability to operate in physical, psychological, socio-economic and cultural dimensions, taking into account feelings as well as thoughts.

  3. Data Gathering and Interpretation - gathering and use of data for clinical judgement, the choice of examination and investigations, and their interpretation.

  4. Making a Diagnosis/Making Decisions - a conscious, structured approach to decision-making.

  5. Clinical Management - the recognition and management of common medical conditions.

  6. Managing Medical Complexity - aspects of care beyond managing straightforward problems, including the management of co-morbidity, uncertainty and risk, and the approach to health rather than just illness.

  7. Primary Care Administration and Information Management and Technology - the appropriate use of primary care administration systems, effective record keeping and information technology for the benefit of patient care.

  8. Working with Colleagues and in Teams - working effectively with other professionals to ensure patient care, including the sharing of information with colleagues.

  9. Community Orientation - the management of the health and social care of the practice population and local community.

  10. Maintaining Performance, Learning and Teaching - maintaining the performance and effective continuing professional development of oneself and others.

  11. Maintaining an Ethical Approach to Practise - practising ethically with integrity and respect for diversity.

  12. Fitness to Practise - the doctor’s awareness of how their own performance, conduct or health, or that of others, might put patients at risk and the action taken to protect patients.

 

 

 

 

The nMRCGP Workplace Based Assessment (WPBA)

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"

The shortened VTS version of the curriculum can be viewed by clicking "The VTS nMRCGP Curriculum"

The recommended reading list can be viewed  by clicking"The VTS Curriculum reference material"

The RCGP WPBA website can be viewed by clicking "RCGP WPBA"

The VTS version of WPBA can be viewed on this page by clicking "The VTS WPBA material"

Introduction WPBA Tools Competency areas