The Complete Mrcgp Casebook 100 Consultations for the Rca CSA Across the New 2020 Rcgp Curriculum 2nd Edition by Emily Blount, Helen Kirby Blount, Liz Moulton ISBN 9781000474466 1000474461

Chapter 1 Consultation Skills and Preparing for the RCGP Exam

1A Introduction and How to Use the Book

1B Useful Summaries

RCGP Curriculum

RCGP Capabilities

Consultation Models

1C Skills Required for This Exam and Marking Those Skills

FOCUS Consultation Model

ICE, SummarICE and InCludE

Practising the Skills within FOCUS

How to Demonstrate Skills: The Marking Scheme Made Easy

Easy-to-Use Generic Feedback Card

1D Our Useful Tips

Structure and Time Management

How to achieve a 10–12-minute consultation

How to develop your time management skills

Signposting

Managing the consultation with multiple problems

Structuring management plans

Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills

Softening and normalising

How the patient should feel when they leave the consultation

Child consultation

Connection and empathy

A useful approach to elicit the psychosocial context

Avoiding assumptions

Detecting and responding to verbal cues

Explanations of grey areas

Examinations

Examination advice for the RCA

How to describe a proposed examination during a telephone consultation

Patients Returning for Test Results

Vulnerable Patients

COVID-19

Phrasing Your Questions

Jargon Switch

Resitting the Exam

1E Recorded Consultation Assessment

Nuts and Bolts for RCA

Case Selection and Demonstrating Skills of Managing Complexity

The RCA Mark Scheme

Abbreviations

Disclaimer

Chapters 2–21 100 Cases, Aligned to the NEW 2020 RCGP Curriculum, Clinical and Life Stages Topics

2 Allergy and Immunology

3 Cardiovascular Health

4 Dermatology

5 ENT, Speech and Hearing

6 Eyes and Vision

7 Gastroenterology

8 Genomic Medicine

9 Gynaecology and Breast

10 Haematology

11 Infectious Disease and Travel Health

12 Kidney and Urology

13 Mental Health

14 Metabolic Problems and Endocrinology

15 Musculoskeletal Health

16 Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Intellectual and Social Disability

17 Neurology

18 Population Health: Promoting Health and Preventing Disease

19 Respiratory Health

20 Sexual Health

21 Smoking, Alcohol and Substance Misuse

Chapter 22 Examination Checklists

Informed Consent

Cardiovascular

Respiratory

Abdominal

Cranial Nerves

Neurological

Thyroid/Neck

Shoulder/Cervical Spine

Elbow

Hands/Wrists

Hips/Lumbar Spine

Knee

Foot/Ankle

ENT

Peripheral Vascular

Appendix 1: Mandatory Cases for the RCA

Appendix 2: Useful Resources

Index