The RCGP curriculum has been updated and the new approach to linking with clinical experience groups has been approved by the GMC. You are now expected to link learning log entries to nine clinical experience groups rather than the previous 25 curriculum statements. Historically trainees felt compelled to complete clinical encounter entries in order to demonstrate adequate curriculum coverage. However such entries often had minimal content and so little educational benefit. The focus has shifted away from specific topics and now looks at the GP population setting.
The GP training curriculum is constantly evolving to meet the changes in general practice – and the changing needs of the trainees. The move to using clinical experience groups within the WPBA ensures that you gain adequate breadth of exposure to the general practice population.
The full curriculum continues to be sampled in the AKT and CSA and is also blueprinted to the WPBA component of the MRCGP. You are still reminded to regularly review the clinical modules of the curriculum, and recommended to make reference to these within their log entries.
You can link up to two different clinical experience groups. It is not expected that every case review will be linked to one of these groups, and some case reviews may be linked appropriately to two. There is no benefit to linking to more than one group as we are not counting up numbers of linked groups.
No. It is expected that by the end of training there should be sufficient coverage of the clinical experience groups to demonstrate your capabilities to work as a GP in the UK in a range of settings. You should therefore be aware at each stage of training whether you are accumulating sufficient evidence. Minimum expected numbers have deliberately not been set and should not be set locally as the demonstration depends on the educational needs of the trainee, the quality of evidence and the reflections on learning rather than on numbers alone.
No. Please see above answer.
Where there is no linkage between one clinical experience group and a capability for example no Fitness to Practise evidence relating to young people, consideration should be made of the quality of evidence relating to the Fitness to Practise capability in other clinical experience groups, and in other WPBA tools.
Evidence of professional learning such as attending conferences, external courses for leadership etc. should only be linked to the relevant GP capabilities of ‘Being a General Practitioner’, the basis for all reflective log entries. For log entries that don't have a clinical component, it is appropriate, and acceptable to not tick any clinical experience group headings. These log entries are equally as valuable.
The RCGP Curriculum group have created ‘The RCGP Curriculum; The Curriculum Topic Guides’ – a detailed document which breaks down examples of questions and what could be covered for each capability for the professional topics, life stage topic and clinical topics, giving a case example of each. The clinical experience groups are covered amongst these guides. See further information on the Curriculum Topic Guides.
The RCGP Curriculum team have written an extensive document detailing information about the clinical topics and life stages. The clinical experience groups weave into this. Further information can be found via the guide: https://www.rcgp.org.uk/-/media/Files/GP-training-and-exams/Curriculum-2019/Curriculum-Topic-Guides-300819.ashx
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