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We have prepared a list of areas which we would like you to read and consider. They will help you in achieving the curriculum objectives discussed above:

• You should be better able to identify what you need to learn, to select appropriate ways of learning and to evaluate the effectiveness of the methods selected.
• You should recognise that, to be effective, you should be willing to learn from a wide variety of people and situations.
• You should acquire additional factual knowledge appropriate to General Practice, and to put your existing considerable store of factual knowledge and experience in a general practice context.
• You should improve your existing skills of history taking, communication, record keeping, disease recognition and the definition, management and solution of problems, in dealing with patients.
• You should acquire skills in working with colleagues, managers and within teams.
• You should develop a greater understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses, so that you may use both your knowledge and your personality as effectively as possible in professional relationships.
• You should develop a curiosity about people, their diseases and their behaviour, which will be translated into a critical faculty willing to question the received wisdom.
• You should be aware of the physical and emotional effects of a career in medicine and plan how to prevent possible negative consequences of these.
• You should be able to enjoy the infinite variety of general practice.

We hope that the DRC will give you the opportunity to learn with and from your colleagues. We ask you to be prepared to teach the rest of us whenever the opportunity arises.

 

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Last update: 01 October 2006