Online learning modules to support new GP
curriculum
Online learning modules are being developed by
the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to provide
support for GP Registrars and GP trainers using the first-ever UK
wide GP training curriculum.
The RCGP is working in partnership E-learning
for Healthcare to produce the modules, which will underpin the new
curriculum and, in time, help to support established GPs with their
Continuing Professional Development.
The interactive e-modules will focus on key
learning objectives and will take between 20 and 30 minutes each to
complete. In due course, the project will cover the whole GP
curriculum but the initial phase will focus on a number of key
areas where trainees tend to need additional input and topics newly
introduced into the training curriculum.
Throughout the development, close links will
be maintained with course organisers, programme directors and
senior deanery educators. Focus groups will be set up to
communicate feedback from GP trainees and trainers.
It is envisaged that the first e-modules will
be available by August 2008.
Dr Bill Reith, Chair of the RCGP Postgraduate
Training Board, says: “The aim of the project is to support
training by offering a flexible resource that can be accessed
anywhere at any time and followed at the learner’s own pace.
“The e-modules are intended to support
lifelong professional learning and development and we hope they
will be a useful resource for both trainees and established GPs
alike.”
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For more information please contact
Lorna Fletcher in the RCGP press office on 020 7344 3136 or
press@rcgp.org.uk
Notes to editors
- The first-ever national GP curriculum will be launched in
August 2007. An historic milestone in GP education, the curriculum
has been given unconditional approval by the Postgraduate Medical
Education and Training Board (PMETB) and will benefit patients,
trainees, GP educators and the NHS as it means that every GP
Specialty Registrar will receive the same quality standard of
training regardless of where in the UK they are based. The
curriculum will transform the three-year period of postgraduate
medical education known as Specialist Training for General
Practice, which runs from the end of the Foundation Programme to
the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training
(CCT).
- The Royal College of General Practitioners is the largest
membership organisation in the UK solely for GPs. It aims to
encourage and maintain the highest standards of general medical
practice and to act as the “voice” of GPs on issues concerned with
education; training; research; and clinical standards. Founded in
1952, the RCGP has over 27,000 members who are committed to
improving patient care, developing their own skills and promoting
general practice as a discipline.