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

Core competencies
Fellows of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners are able to:
• manage the consultation event in an ordered, responsive,
culturally competent and integrated manner
• use planned and opportunistic approaches to providing
screening, preventative care and health promotion
• use diagnostic skills, including history taking, physical
examination skills and investigations, as appropriate
• apply knowledge of epidemiology to all aspects of
patient care
• use clinical reasoning to develop a working diagnosis
and refine this diagnosis through further investigations,
as appropriate
• ensure continuity of care by developing timely plans
for referral and follow-up, where appropriate
• acknowledge clinical uncertainty and respond
appropriately to it
• recognise and manage clinical risk in all aspects of
patient care
• develop an appropriate management plan in negotiation
with the patient using evidence-based medicine and
best practice
• recognise their own skills and knowledge and respond
appropriately to limitations
• prescribe treatments safely and appropriately
• share knowledge and skills with trainees and colleagues
from a range of disciplines.
• use procedural skills safely and appropriately
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