1. GP Curriculum
Colette McNally

2. Feelings? Thoughts? Learning Needs?

3. The Structure of the Curriculum
Being a General Practitioner
The Core Curriculum
31 Interpretative Statements

4. The Core Statement
Being a General Practitioner: Published in January 2007
Does anyone know what inspired the content of the core curriculum?

5. World Organisation of (family Doctors) of National Colleges, Academics, Academic Associations of GPs/family physicians

6. The Three Essential Application Features
The Core Curriculum
Domains
Primary Care Management
Person-Centred Care
Specific Problem-solving Skills
A Comprehensive Approach
Community Orientation
A Holistic Approach
The Three Essential Application Features
Contextual Aspects of Care
Attitudinal Aspects of Care
Scientific Aspects of Care

7. The Structure of Each Interpretative Statement

8. 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

9. Domain 2: Person-Centred Care
Person-centred RCGP consultation style
Foster effective doctor-patient relations
Work with the patent and respect their autonomy

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Domain 6: A Holistic Approach
Use the bio-psycho-social model
Consider cultural and existential dimensions

14. 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

15. 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

16. Essential Features: Scientific Aspects
Research principals and statistics
Thorough up-to-date knowledge of GP
Critically appraise literature
Effective CPD for lifelong learning

17. Two Useless Facts The curriculum includes about 1350 learning outcomes
If printed out it weighs 3.5kg

18. 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

19. 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