RCR Curriculum

Generic Professional Capabilities (GPC) Framework

The GMC developed the Generic Professional Capabilities (GPC) framework with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC).

 

The GPC outlines the fundamental, career-long, generic capabilities required of every doctor. The framework consists of nine domains that outline 'minimum common regulatory requirements' of performance and professional behaviours of those acquiring CCT or equivalent.  The domains and subsections of the GPC are mirrored in the clinical radiology and interventional radiology curricula, mapped to the generic and speciality specific high level learning outcomes known as capabilities in practice (CiPs). 

Each CiP describes the clinical activities and critical tasks carried out by a consultant radiologist (from day one), which trainees can be trusted to perform when they have demonstrated sufficient competence. Such tasks are referred to as entrustable professional activities (EPAs). The level at which trainees meet each CiP is stage dependent and expected to progress in a upward trajectory throughout training. 

There are 6 generic and 6 specialty specific CiPs in the 2021 clinical radiology curriculum. The tables below summarises these, and specifies the minimum expected levels of achievement at critical progression points, and for each year in training. The numbers 1 -4 refer to the entrustment scale as described below.

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Please refer to page 11-25 of the curriculum for full descriptors of each CiP. (The clinical radiology curriculum can be accessed here: https://www.rcr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/clinical_radiology_curriculum_2021.pdf )

An example of a generic CiP is shown below:


CiP 1 - Demonstrate the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as outlined in Good medical practice.
As doctors, consultant radiologists adhere to the principles of ‘Good medical practice’ as stipulated by the GMC.

Descriptors

  • Make the care of and effective communication with patients their first concern
  •  Provide a good standard of practice and care
  • Take prompt action if patient safety, dignity or comfort is being compromised
  • Protect and promote the health of patients and the public
  • Treat patients as individuals and respect their dignity, showing sensitivity to religious, cultural and socioeconomic factors
  • Work in partnership with patients, their families and carers
  • Work with colleagues in the ways that best serve patients’ interests
  • Be honest and open and act with integrity
  • Never discriminate unfairly against patients or colleagues
  • Never abuse their patients’ trust in you or the public’s trust in the profession

Suggested evidence 

  • MSF
  • Mini-IPX
  • Rad-DOPS
  • MDTA
  • Patient feedback

 

Sign off for each CiP will require clinical and educational supervisors to make entrustment decisions on the level of supervision required for each underlying activity within each CiP, at each critical progression point, taking into consideration patient safety.

 This short video (from the RCR) elaborate

s on EPAs and the four-point entrustment scale (levels 1-4) used to assess them:
https://youtu.be/_u9p70O69L4

As a reminder the four-point entrustment scales describing both generic and special- specific CiPs are listed in the tables below:

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