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GP Curriculum. Colette M c Nally. Feelings? Thoughts? Learning Needs?. The Structure of the Curriculum. The Core Statement. Being a General Practitioner: Published in January 2007 Does anyone know what inspired the content of the core curriculum?. The Core Curriculum.
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GP Curriculum Colette McNally
Feelings? Thoughts? Learning Needs?
The Core Statement • Being a General Practitioner: Published in January 2007 • Does anyone know what inspired the content of the core curriculum?
Domain 1: Primary Care Management • Consult effectively • Have sufficient knowledge and skills to manage the patient • Refer appropriately to all services • Use IT effectively, engage in audit and practice management • Act as an advocate for the patient
Domain 2: Person-Centred Care • Person-centred RCGP consultation style • Foster effective doctor-patient relations • Work with the patent and respect their autonomy
Domain 3: Specific Problem-Solving Skills • Consult in a patient centred manner as per guidance • Use disease prevalence to guide decision making • Use watch and wait appropriately • Investigate appropriately • Tolerate uncertainty
Domain 4: A Comprehensive Approach • Manage acute and chronic conditions, sometimes simultaneously in a consultation • Individualised care tailored to patient need and to their health beliefs • Health promotion
Domain 5: Community Orientation • Understand your local population with respect to health, social care, ethnicity, poverty etc • Manage the patient with the community issues in mind • Resource management
Domain 6: A Holistic Approach • Use the bio-psycho-social model • Consider cultural and existential dimensions
Essential Features: Contextual Aspects • Impact of local community on patient care • Understand the impact of GP workload and facilities on patient care • Understand practice legal and financial frameworks • Understand the impact of the doctor’s surroundings on the care they provide
Essential Features: Attitudinal Aspects • Awareness of limits of expertise • Identify ethical issues • Awareness of own attitudes and beliefs in context • Valuing and encouraging contribution of others • Participate in service management and improvement • Justify and clarify personal ethics • Work-life balance
Essential Features: Scientific Aspects • Research principals and statistics • Thorough up-to-date knowledge of GP • Critically appraise literature • Effective CPD for lifelong learning
Two Useless Facts • The curriculum includes about 1350 learning outcomes • If printed out it weighs 3.5kg
Ownership • Each statement has a ‘Curriculum Statement Guardian’ • Anyone can apply to be a Guardian • Guardians are responsible for the quality and content of the statement • Guardians are not remunerated
E-GP • All modules mapped to curriculum statements • Completion of a module automatically creates a log entry (within 24 hr) • The log entry is only partly constructed so the trainee can complete it and transport further learning needs to their PDP