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

Rheumatology
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Professionalism
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• support patient self-determination, and a patient’s right
to seek alternative and complementary therapies while
advocating best practice and patient safety
• maintain premises and equipment that comply with
recognised codes of access and safety, particularly for
invasive procedures
• employ empathy and compassion towards patients with
incurable, disabling or painful rheumatological conditions
• evaluate the role that ethnicity has on disease prevalence
and presentation, access to health services and clinical
outcomes.
Scholarship
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• use evidence-based clinical decision-making when
managing patients with rheumatological problems
• adopt an evidence-based approach to practice and quality
improvement through research and audit
• teach and train staff and trainees for the benefit of patients
• undertake ongoing medical education including, where
relevant, specific manual and injection techniques that are
useful to control pain and improve function.
Context of General Practice
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• describe indications for referral within a suitable timeframe
to the most appropriate health care practitioner
• examine the effect of increasing rurality of the community
on disease presentation, access to health services and
clinical outcomes, and seek to reconcile any significant
differences
• provide leadership in the ongoing coordination of
multidisciplinary care for patients with rheumatological
conditions when required
• work collaboratively with rheumatologists to address
the increased cardiovascular risk associated with some
rheumatological conditions.
Management
The GP will demonstrate the ability to appraise effective and appropriate care provision and health service use and in so doing
avoid investigations or treatments that are unlikely to alter outcomes.
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