RCGP Curriculum - 10.1 Women's Health
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 10.1, Women's Health, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
Women-specific health matters, including contraception, pregnancy, menopause and disorders of reproductive organs, account for over 25 per cent of a GP’s time. In addition, women present with non-gender related issues in specific ways that the specialty registrar will need to become sensitive to: domestic violence, depression and alcoholism can all present differently in women. In society, women tend to take the larger role in caring for dependants – children, parents, ill or disabled spouses. This also brings special considerations.
Here we have collated key articles from our journals to help you meet the curriculum requirements in this area.
PRIMARY CARE MANAGEMENT
- Clinical Review - Uterine fibroids
- Clinical Review - Management of Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Female genital mutilation: considerations in the community
- Recognising intimate partner violence
- Medico-legal issues in intimate examinations
- Medico-legal issues in intimate examinations
- The function of a chaperone
- Women's health - Terminate pregnancies
- A Problem Shared - A patient demands an early ultrasound
SKILLS AND ATTITUDES
- Pre-pregnancy counselling
- Antenatal viral infections
- Practice Dilemma - A request for pregnancy termination
- Prescribing the Pill for the first time
- Ensure patients give informed consent
- MRCGP - CSA practice case - Emergency contraception
- MRCGP - CSA practice case - Emergency contraception
- The importance of antenatal screening
- Viewpoint - Assessment of HPV vaccination
- Mental healthcare during and after pregnancy
- Alcohol misuse in pregnant women
SYMPTOMS
- Red Flag Symptoms - Amenorrhoea
- Red Flag Symptoms - Vaginal discharge
- Red flag symptoms - Nipple discharge
- Assessing a woman with a breast lump
- Carcinoma of the breast
- Red flag symptoms - Dyspareunia in women
- The basics - Endometriosis
- Clinical Review: Chronic pelvic pain
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Clinical Review - Postnatal depression
- Case study - Emotional lability and sleep problems in a female teacher
- Journals club - Antidepressant use in pregnancy
- NICE guidance on faecal incontinence in adults
- Infertility management and referring patients
- Investigation and management of subfertility
- MRCGP - CSA practice case - Low mood in a menopausal patient
- CKS Clinical solutions - Perimenopause
- Cardiovascular risk and the menopause
- Sexual dysfunction and the menopause
- Menopausal women with previous breast cancer
- Imaging in postmenopausal bleeding
- Abnormal uterine bleeding
- Treating abnormal menstrual bleeding
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Case study - Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
- How to diagnose and treat vulval itch -10-minute consultation
- Update on vulval lichen sclerosus
- Clinical Review: Overactive bladder syndrome
- Red Flag Symptoms - Urinary incontinence
- The basics - Female urinary incontinence
- New therapies for prolapse
- 10-minute consultation: recurrent cystitis in women of reproductive age
- The Basics - Vaginal discharge
- Pictorial Case Study
OTHER CONDITIONS
- Clinical Review - Osteoporosis
- The Basics - Menopause
- The Basics - Ovarian cysts
- Clinical Review - Benign breast disease
- The basics - Urinary tract infection in adults
- Viewpoint - Obesity in menopausal women
- New therapies for prolapse
- Treating female pattern baldness
- Diagnosis and management of hirsutism
- Diagnosis and management of hirsutism
INVESTIGATIONS
GYNAECOLOGICAL INFECTIONS
GYNAECOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES
MENSTRUAL DISORDERS
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
PREGNANCY
- Haematology - Pre-eclampsia and HELLP
- NICE guidance - Multiple pregnancies
- Managing obesity in pregnancy
- Clinical Review: Reduced fetal movements
- The basics - Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy
- The basics - Ectopic pregnancy
- Identifying recurrent miscarriage
- Women's health - Terminate pregnancies
- Clinical Review - Postnatal depression
- Medico-legal issues in pregnancy terminations
- Polyhydramnios
- Emergency medicine - Emergency obstetrics
- Case study - Postnatal headaches
- The basics - Diabetes in pregnancy
- Blood tests in pregnancy - a GP guide
- Clinical Review - Abdominal pain in pregnancy
- CKS Clinical solutions - Epilepsy and pregnancy
- The Basics - Gestational diabetes
- Diagnosis of hypertension in pregnancy
- Red Flag Symptoms - Pregnancy
- Pregnancy outcomes in women with diabetes
- Management of hyperemesis gravidarum
- Substance misuse during pregnancy
- Heart disease in pregnancy
- Problems during pregnancy
TREATMENT
OTHER RELATED ARTICLES
- Contraception in special situations
- A difficult contraceptive dilemma to consider
- Managing polycystic ovary syndrome
- First-time contraception requests
- Case study - Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
These curriculum resources are regularly updated with relevant articles from our range of healthcare publications. All articles are reviewed by GP advisers. We have set the standard lifetime of an article at two years and will aim to renew all articles within that timeframe. However, some older articles will remain in the listing if our reviewers believe there to be no significant changes to the topic covered.
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