IDP Services

 
Through its International Development Programme, the RCGP offers a wide variety of consultancy, expertise and skills transfer services to its clients.

Accreditation and Assessment Visits

The RCGP is well-placed to provide expert advice on accreditation of courses or to provide assessment visits for training and education programmes. In addition, the RCGP Membership Examination, including MRCGP[INT] is highly regarded world-wide as a higher professional qualification in general practice/family medicine of excellent standards.

 

Study Visits

The College welcomes over 100 International visitors to the College Headquarters in London each year, and can arrange a series of presentations according to the needs of the visitors. Visits to practices can also be arranged. As much notice as possible is requested, so that the precise requirements of the visitors can be met. Further details can be obtained from our International Department at the College.

 

These visits can range from a meeting with a College expert on a particular theme, to a broader programme of orientation on the wider issues affecting health service delivery in the UK, with particular reference to primary health care delivery and the interface between primary and secondary care. Within longer study tours we can arrange meetings with various institutions involved in health care delivery, education and validation and are particularly keen to stress the role of a college or association in shaping the development of general practice in a country. Finally, study visits and tours can offer brief examples of the many courses and seminars available from College resources.

 

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Training: Curriculum Development

Whether through University Medical Schools or through the College’s regional faculties, the RCGP has a wealth of experience in all forms of undergraduate and postgraduate education and also in curriculum development at all levels. Courses and curricula can be constructed to take into account local needs and customs, using experts with vast experience.Whether through University Medical Schools or through the College’s regional faculties, the RCGP has a wealth of experience in all forms of undergraduate and postgraduate education and also in curriculum development at all levels. Courses and curricula can be constructed to take into account local needs and customs, using experts with vast experience.

 

Courses and Seminars

The Royal College of General Practitioners has developed courses on a full range of general practice-related topics, many of which are multidisciplinary for all members of the primary health care teams. A number of these courses have been held in both UK and overseas locations.Topics include:

 

  • Managing Emergencies in General Practice
  • Paediatrics in General Practice
  • HIV and AIDS in General Practice
  • Minor Surgery in General Practice
  • Care of Adolescents in General Practice

 

Quality Assurance Techniques and Programmes

The RCGP has been involved in audit and other issues related to quality in general practice for many years; and has oftern assisted colleagues from around the world in this area.

 

International Teachers Course

The RCGP has developed courses for small groups of selected teachers in General Practice from around the world with the objective of:

 

  • Developing effective teaching and learning skills;
  • Encouraging and supporting the structure and management of General Practice Education in differing health care systems;
  • Establishing core international groups of competent teachers;
  • Providing academic validation for future educationalists.

 

The courses present an open, learner-centred model, responsive to the needs of the participants and translatable back to the delegates’ home environment. The course itself is in modular form - two modules of one week each.

 

 

Research in General Practice

The RCGP aims to:

  • Encourage the publication by general medical practitioners of research into medical or scientific subjects with a view to the improvement of general medical practice in any field and to undertake or assist others in undertaking such research;
  • Disseminate information on all matters affecting general medical practice and establish, print, publish, issue and circulate such papers, journals, magazines, books, periodicals and publications, and hold such meetings, conferences, seminars and instructional courses as may assist the object of the college.