GP training
GP speciality training essentials for GP registrars. A perfect resource for the MRCGP examination, this section contains advice and information for GP trainees, including articles to help you improve your consultation skills, meet the demands of workplace-based assessment and tips to help you prepare for the RCA and AKT exams.
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Preparing for the RCA/CSA
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GP training: Tips on how to prepare for the recorded consultation assessment (RCA)
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GP training: Conducting your consultations for the recorded consultation assessment (RCA)
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GP training: My experience of taking the recorded consultation assessment (RCA)
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GP training: Consultation tips for the recorded consultation assessment (RCA)
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GP training: Preparing for the CSA exam
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GP training: Structuring the consultation in the CSA exam
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How to pass the CSA exam on your first attempt
CSA practice cases
Consultation skills
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GP training: Safe and structured remote consulting
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Telephone triage for non-COVID-19 patients during a pandemic
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GP training: Conducting a 10-minute telephone consultation
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Consultation skills - Control the length of the consultation
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Consultation skills: Breaking bad news
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Consultation skills - Staying calm with angry patients
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Consultation skills - How to deal with manipulative patients
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Consultation skills - Consulting with family members
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Consultation skills: Frequent attenders
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Consultation skills: Consulting with the bereaved patient
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GP training: Consulting with the 'worried well'
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GP training: How to master the ten-minute consultation
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A patient-centric approach to consent
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GP consultation skills: The 10-minute consultation
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How to handle aggressive patients
General advice
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GP training: Starting as a GP trainee
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GP training: Undertaking a home visit
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Dealing with your first death as a GP
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10 tips for newly-qualified GPs
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GP training: Tips for your ST3 year
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Preparing for your first appraisal as a GP
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GP training: How to make the most of your hospital rotations
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Why general practice needs more young leaders
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How to write GP referral letters
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Palliative care: How GPs can handle conversations about end-of-life care
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GP training: Dealing with your first complaint
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GP training: 5 common prescribing pitfalls and how to avoid them
Applied Knowledge Test
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GP training: How to succeed in the AKT
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Preparing for the AKT exam
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Preparing for the AKT: Clinical medicine
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Preparing for the AKT: Critical appraisal and evidence-based practice
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Preparing for the AKT: Health informatics
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GP training: Useful resources when preparing for the AKT
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GP training: Tips to help you pass the AKT
Workplace-based assessment
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GP training: Writing up a quality improvement activity for your e-portfolio
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GP training: How a quality improvement activity is marked
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Improving learning log entries in GP training: a reflection on a follow-up case
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Improving learning log entries in GP training: a reflection on CPD
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Improving learning log entries in GP training: a professional experience
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Improving learning log entries in GP training - an email consultation
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Improving learning log entries in GP training - a clinical case review
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Preparing for your educational supervisor's review (ESR)
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Reflecting on significant events during GP training
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Developing reflective writing skills - part one
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Developing reflective writing skills - part two
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GP training: Appraising a case-based discussion
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GP training: Writing a PDP in your e-portfolio
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GP training: Recording your placement meeting in a learning log
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GP training: What does the new prescribing assessment involve?
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Writing up clinical examination and procedural skills (CEPS) in learning logs
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The audio clinical observation tool (COT) in GP training
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Using random case analyses in GP training
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Multisource feedback in GP training
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The patient satisfaction questionnaire in GP training
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GP training: Teaching as a GP trainee
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GP training: Writing up your teaching or presentation as a learning log
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GP training: Gathering evidence for 'maintaining an ethical approach'
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GP training: The BATHE model of communication
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GP training: The Swiss cheese model for significant event analysis
Medico-legal
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What GPs need to know about the GMC's new guidance on prescribing
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Avoiding risks when consulting with patients remotely
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Getting the most out of remote consultations
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New GMC guidance on consent explained
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Parental responsibility and consent
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Advance decisions to refuse treatment - what GPs need to know
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Saying sorry - what does the duty of candour mean for GPs?
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How GPs can reduce risk when working in unscheduled care
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Responding to a request to amend patient records
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How to reduce the risk of prescribing errors
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Confidentiality: When can GPs disclose information to the police?
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Confidentiality: What can GPs tell family members?
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Confidentiality: Disclosing patient information within the healthcare team
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Email security and patient confidentiality
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Genetic information and confidentiality
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