Curriculum 
          for General  
          Practice  
           
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     Curriculum for General Practice
                 Curriculum for General Practice
                  
     What’s inside:
     Mihi  01
     Foreword  02
     Acknowledgements 03
     Part 1 – Curriculum development  04
     Part 2 – General practice in New Zealand  07
     Part 3 – Curriculum framework  08
     Part 4 – Delivering the curriculum  11
     Part 5 – Curriculum domains  13
     Domain 1 – Communication  14
     Domain 2 – Clinical Expertise  16
     Domain 3 – Professionalism  18
     Domain 4 – Scholarship  20
     Domain 5 – Context of General Practice  22
     Domain 6 – Management  24
     Part 6 – Curriculum statements  26
     Curriculum statements  27
     02                                      Curriculum for General Practice
                                                                                        Mihi 
                                         
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            E nga mana, e ngareo, e nga karangatanga maha 
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            mai nga topito o te motu, tena koutou katoa. Tena 
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            koutou i o tatou tini mate kua wheturangitia. No reira, 
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            nga mate, haere. He kaupapa tino whakahirahira te
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            nei mo tatou nga rata a-whanau o Aotearoa, tuakana 
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            teina ranei, ahakoa no whea, ahakoa ko wai, ahakoa 
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            ko tehea tikanga. Mehemea ka whakapakari nga pu
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            kenga me te matauranga hoki ka puawai te hua hei 
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            oranga mo tatou te tangata, a, ka whakamana te 
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            kaupapa e whai ake nei. Heoi ano e te iti, e te rahi, 
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            tena tatou huri noa. 
            Greetings to all of us, and to those who have 
            passed on we greet and acknowledge you also. 
            The new curriculum is very important for all general 
            practitioners to ensure we have the appropriate skills 
            and knowledge base to provide optimum health care 
            to patients in our diverse communities. Once again, 
            greetings and best wishes.
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        Foreword 
        Foreword 
        The Royal New Zealand College of General 
        Practitioners’ Curriculum for General Practice 
        has been updated and expanded to ensure our 
        training programme equips general practitioners 
        to practise successfully in New Zealand’s rapidly 
        evolving health environment.
        Since 2010, the College has been working in partnership             The kaupapa/spirit of this document reflects the cultural 
        with Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ) and the Medical            diversity of New Zealand society and the need for general 
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        Council (MCNZ) to review how general practitioners are              practitioners to work with patients, family/whanau and 
        trained. We have jointly identified the requirement for general     general practice teams to achieve good health outcomes.  
        practitioners to provide more complex care and the need for 
        stronger relationships to be formed between primary and             On behalf of the College I want to thank the Curriculum 
        secondary services.                                                 Review Committee which has created and developed an 
                                                                            outcomes-based curriculum that meets these needs and 
        The curriculum was considerably enhanced in 2012,                   better reflects the broad scope of general practice. 
        building on the significant work completed on the curriculum 
        since 2008 and expanding existing syllabuses to meet the 
        changing needs of the New Zealand population and our 
        primary care environment. Minor updates have been made in 
        2014 to ensure that the curriculum remains current, coherent 
        and relevant to general practice. 
        It is a dynamic, working document designed not only                 Tim Malloy
        for those who are training in general practice but also             President
        for experienced general practitioners maintaining their 
        competencies. 
        The RNZCGP Curriculum for General Practice 2012 
        (2014 edition) is divided into six domains and 31 curriculum 
        statements and outlines the competencies related to the 
        wide range of patient populations and processes in general 
        practice in New Zealand.
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