Education for General Practice
Course Content
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This covers five areas
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Approaches to Problem Solving
 | Managing everyday diseases and emergencies by making sound clinical and managerial decisions |
| Thinking clearly - analysing information and evidence and coming to considered judgments |
| Identifying options and choosing between those options |
| Learning to be flexible and to cope with uncertainty |
How General Practice is organised
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Understanding current GP issues |
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Understanding the role of other primary health care team members |
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Management and business of GP - including PCTs |
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How social conditions and cultural factors affect a patient's disease and how it presents |
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Applying preventative measures, health education and health promotion |
Expert communication
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Communicating well: verbally and non- verbally |
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Expressing ideas with lucidity and clarity |
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Showing compassion, empathy and sensitivity |
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Understanding and using consultation models |
Understanding professionalism
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Being aware of the importance of our own values and attitudes |
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Basing clinical behaviour on rational evidence, forming opinions that are not prejudiced. |
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Recognising the patient's autonomy and the significance of patient-centred and doctor-centred working styles. |
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Expressing views which are not dogmatic or arrogant. Tolerating the views of others: patients, their relatives, and colleagues. |
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Considering moral, ethical and medico-legal issues. |
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Being aware of your own needs. |
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Learning to self-appraise. |
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Knowing your limitations and performing safely, knowing when it is necessary to seek help or refer. |
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Being receptive to new ideas and approaches; understanding change and how to manage it. |
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Staying positive about your work, surviving personal and professional stress by using strategies to prevent burn out. |
MRCGP
We have accepted the view of course members that preparing for this exam is an integral part of vocational training. Preparation for the MRCGP starts in the SHO years.
Summative Assessment
Help is available on the half day release course as well as in the practices to make sure this hurdle is cleared without problems.
