Introduction
Welcome to our first pilot of the Essential General Practice
(EGP) update programme. Our first EGP Update consists of 20
items. Most should be relevant to your practice – wherever
you practise in the UK, whatever stage of your career you’re at, or
if you work as a GP partner/principal or salaried GP or locum in an
inner city or rural practice.
What is the EGP Update programme all
about?
Updates focus on new and changing information that relate to key
clinical areas of national significance where there is a dependable
consensus about best practice (take a look at our contents list). We expect to produce two EGP
Updates per year.
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EGP underpins what’s best about general
practice…….
‘…the revolution which
evidence based medicine has brought and the compassion with which
we are able to apply science, married with accountability and
equity are the best basis for providing high quality professional
medical care….’ (GP)
What do you value from your GP? ’…Up to date
knowledge of available procedures/drugs for treating illness…’ ‘….A
breadth of knowledge and experience that mean they can put together
symptoms I may have and know if there is anything I need to worry
about…..’ (Patients)
The essence of General Practice initiative
http://www.rcgp-scotland.org.uk/
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Each EGP Update item is hyperlinked to the original source
document and summarises the key information. Then we suggest ways
that you can reflect on and compare your own practice against the
standards and best practice described (our learning tools section can aid you here). We
give you practical tips that the busy GP may want to remember. A
clinical scenario and linked self assessment questions follow to
allow you to demonstrate that you have assimilated, or already knew
the information in the Update item. Lastly we challenge you to
capture any learning or service needs in your personal development
plan – and guide you to further reading for each EGP Update item if
you want to know more. You might want to use the range of
RCGP information resources or the
vast resources of other bodies to read
more on subjects you’re interested in or need to know more.
How does the EGP Update programme fit with appraisal and
revalidation?
We expect that the EGP Update programme will
help GPs to demonstrate that they are keeping up to date – and
applying their knowledge and skills. That’s what you will need to
do in your CPD folder within your single portfolio for appraisal,
relicensing and recertification. Printing off your answers to
clinical scenarios, recording how you compared your own practice
with the best practice now recommended and how you have rectified
any gaps, then logging and addressing your learning and service
needs in your PDP- should do just that.
Help us to evaluate this EGP Update 1 pilot
Help us to help you - join in the EGP pilot
and give us feedback about the first Update to help us develop the
EGP programme to match what GPs need and want. We intend that the
EGP Update programme is suitable for all GPs, whatever the stage of
their career or their working circumstances. It should be equally
accessible to members and non-members of the College and will be
applicable to all UK GPs. It will be adaptable for international
members or UK GPs based overseas. Just follow the next steps
described below if you want to register for the programme.
What’s your next step if you want to participate in this
pilot?
- You could go through the whole lot - reading each EGP Update
item and digesting the contents - sometimes diverting to the
original texts hyperlinked to the Update for the full detail and
completing the exercises. Or you might
prefer to work through the complete set of 20 clinical scenarios
extracted from each of the items as your first
step and complete the self assessment questions for each.
Then you could focus on those EGP Update items where you got some
of the answers wrong or were uncertain of why your answer was
right/wrong.
- You will log which sections of each EGP Update items you
undertake or complete.
- Once you have completed as much of the EGP Update 1 programme
as you wish to do you will return the feedback form and completed
log of what parts of the 20 EGP Update items you have undertaken to
Jacqui.
- We will contact you after three months or so if we haven’t
heard from you, to find out how you are getting on.
- We may involve you in a telephone discussion if you are willing
to give feedback that way.
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EGP 1 May 2008