- Title
- Procedural skills in general practice vocational training: what should be taught?
- Creator
- Sylvester, Stephen; Magin, Parker; Sweeney, Kevin; Morgan, Simon; Henderson, Kim
- Relation
- Australian Family Physician Vol. 40, Issue 1-2, p. 50-54
- Relation
- http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2011/januaryfebruary/procedural-skills-in-general-practice-vocational-training
- Publisher
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Background: A list of procedural skills is an important component of a curriculum for general practice vocational training. This study aimed to establish an up-to-date list of core procedural skills that doctors undergoing general practice vocational training should be taught. Methods: A Delphi process was used to rank the importance of 185 general practice procedures. In 2009, 31 general practitioners took part in a two round Delphi process. A 4-point Likert scale was used to rate the importance of each procedure in vocational training. Results: Mean rating scores for all the procedural items listed were determined, and a core list of 112 procedures was agreed on the basis of the relative importance of procedures determined by the Delphi participants. Discussion: The ranked list of clinical procedures provides a resource to form the basis of a procedures training curriculum which can be adapted to different general practice training contexts.
- Subject
- general practice; education; medical; graduate; diagnostic techniques and procedures; therapeutic techniques and procedures; curriculum; clinical competence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1056977
- Identifier
- uon:16106
- Identifier
- ISSN:0300-8495
- Rights
- Copyright to Australian Family Physician. Reproduced with permission. Permission to reproduce must be sought from the publisher, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
- Language
- eng
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