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

Population and Public Health
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Communication
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• communicate the benefits and risks of population health
activities, such as immunisation programmes, to patients,
family/whānau and communities in a non-judgmental way
• use the communication skills required when informing
patients of serious conditions that have both personal
and public health implications, such as hepatitis and HIV
• discuss all aspects of infectious diseases with patients,
and where appropriate their family/whānau, and the
implications of these for the wider population
• use brief intervention for conditions that have an impact
on population health, such as smoking, diet and exercise
• describe the various diet-related conditions that contribute
to the burden of disease in New Zealand and ways of
discussing these with patients and their family/whānau
and carers
• discuss the specific requirements confidentially and
the ethical issues behind notifying other authorities and
disclosure of patient information and how to communicate
these, such as through contact tracing.
Clinical Expertise
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• discuss the childhood immunisation schedule and the
conditions it protects against
• describe the implications of long-term conditions on
the population and individuals, and ways to reduce
adverse outcomes
• describe the various notifiable diseases and the
assessment, treatment and long-term management
of them
• record lifestyle factors that impact on the health of
individual patients and interventions undertaken to
reduce the risk of developing chronic conditions
• discuss the health implications of immigration to
New Zealand and how to assess them
• recognise the benefit of proactive, individually targeted
lifestyle and nutritional interventions that can lead to
protection from future serious disease.
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