18 Sep 2009
Three GPs review our online curriculum resource centre and give their views on its content and ease-of-use....to isolate relevant articles from various healthcare publications and arrange them under the GP curriculum headings. 'The first page of the GP Curriculum Centre lists the curriculum statements as chapter headings ...
and intuitive to navigate.' Dr Prashini Naidoo, a GP trainer in Oxford Click here to read the full ...
07 Oct 2010
| by Dr Samar Razaq
There is a range of extra qualifications available which can enhance a GP's CV....The start of GP training marks an important shift in a trainee's focus. Although in most cases ...
and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is probably the diploma most frequently attempted by GP registrars.
The exam format has ...
by GPs and old-age psychiatrists to show a competence in delivery of a higher standard of care ...
21 Apr 2010
| by Dr Joshi, a GP in Cambridge
Management for New GPs is an RCGP publication that offers an introduction to management and leadership in general practice. It is aimed at GP registrars and newly qualified GPs, but can also be used ...
. The book begins with some background history about the NHS and the role of the GP. It then moves ...
23 Jan 2009
GP has launched a new online Curriculum Centre on Healthcare Republic. Colin Cooper answers your...What is the GP Curriculum Centre? The GP Curriculum Centre is a unique online resource that takes the RCGP curriculum for GPs in training and links each learning requirement to selected articles ...
are articles selected for the GP Curriculum Centre? We asked GP educators and primary care experts ...
12 May 2011
| by Dr Prashini Naidoo
An interested GP principal, having taken a few years to establish him or herself in general ...
an accredited GP trainer. In some areas, there are several paths to becoming a trainer and it is a matter ...
A few essential ingredients are required to produce a GP trainer:
A GP with at least two ...
04 Nov 2010
| by Dr Linda Miller
A GP trainer supervises a trainee during their time in practice. This includes inducting ...
the broad experience necessary to become a GP and to pass the MRCGP exam.
Weekly half-day release ...
a parent for the first time may well coincide with GP training and the trainer should be able ...
07 Apr 2011
There has never been a better time for GPs to get involved in teaching, writes Dr Anuradha Arasu...There has never been a better time for GPs to get involved with teaching. The GMC paper Tomorrow's Doctors emphasises the benefits of GPs teaching medical students within the community and the need for more GPs to become teachers. This means there are plenty of opportunities for more GPs ...
10 Sep 2009
The last six months of GP training can be stressful. Alongside finishing the ePortfolio ...
is issued, the PMETB will send your details to the GMC to be included on the GP register (if so indicated ...
will send you a copy of this in the post. Only when the GMC has entered you on its register as a GP can you ...
02 Dec 2010
| by Dr Deepa Gadhvi
reality for me when I, along with my family, travelled 9,402 miles to start a new life as a GP in Cairns ...
to be something more sinister. GPs have to think laterally because there are illnesses here that we would not come ...
dressings and minor injuries instead of referring to the A E departments.
As a female GP I also treat ...
19 Sep 2007
Riley and Dr Jayne Haynes introduce the GP curriculum...., skills, attitudes and expertise that a doctor in training needs to master to become a competent GP ...
. Why do we need a curriculum? Previously a new GP trainee would spend weeks searching fruitlessly for an official opinion on 'what a GP needs to know'. GPs in training can now focus their initial efforts ...