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Crammer's Corner
GP, Chapelgreen practice, Sheffield, RCGP Examiner and Blueprint clinical lead, Associate Postgraduate Dean Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery
E-mail: amar.rughani@sheffield.ac.uk
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Clinical management |
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| This performance area is about the recognition and management of common medical conditions in primary care.
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In the previous two sections, data gathering and making diagnoses/making decisions, we have learned about a number of behaviours that are needed to solve problems. In this chapter, we will move on and specifically apply these abilities to clinical problems that present in primary care.
There are seven major themes in the clinical management domain, each represented by a competency progression, which we will now discuss. Let us look at the word pictures from the first progression shown in Fig. 1.
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Looking at each of the word pictures in turn:
Recognizes the presentation of common physical, psychological and social problems.
Here, we are concerned with the ability to ‘recognize’ common problems in these areas, particularly in the early stages.
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What is common in our locality? |
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In addition to knowing what the national figures suggest about