Curriculum for General Practice - The Royal New Zealand College ...

Mental Health
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Professionalism
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• reflect on issues around confidentiality, privacy and
the need to involve family/whānau in patient care within
and outside practice, particularly in rural or small
communities
• consider and engage in supervision or mentoring as a
part of self-care for general practitioners
• promote safety issues for themselves, other staff and
their patient, including exits from the consulting room
and emergency alerts
• discuss the interpersonal implications of continuity of
care, such as transference and counter-transference
• involve local mental health initiatives to facilitate access
to care, including extended consultations and funded
referral for psychological therapies
• reflect and discuss how they might approach concerns
about the mental health of a colleague.
• understand the concept of ‘emotional labour’ of the
consultation, how this relates to mental health
consultations and ongoing care, and potential for
emotional exhaustion and burn-out
Scholarship
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• maintain current knowledge of best practice in care for
patients with mental illness
• willingly teach and lead all members of the primary care
team in mental health diagnosis and management
• understand and discuss how to audit aspects of their
management of patients with mental illness, such as
prescribing
• use available resources, such as print or electronic
information, or organisations and support groups.
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