GMC Domains
- THE DOCTOR AS A SCHOLAR
- TD 8: APPLICATION OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, METHOD AND KNOWLEDGE
- Medical knowledge: ANATOMY (TD 8.1)
- Medical knowledge: PHYSIOLOGY (TD 8.2)
- Medical knowledge: BIOCHEMISTRY (inc. Metabolism) (TD 8.3)
- Medical knowledge: CELL BIOLOGY (TD 8.4)
- Medical knowledge: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY and GENETICS (TD 8.5, 8.6)
- Medical knowledge: PATHOLOGY (TD 8.7)
- Medical knowledge: CANCER
- Medical knowledge: IMMUNOLOGY and INFLAMMATION (TD 8.8)
- Medical knowledge: MICROBIOLOGY and INFECTION (TD 8.9)
- Medical knowledge: PHARMACOLOGY (TD 8.10)
- Medical knowledge: NUTRITION (TD 8.11)
- Medical knowledge: CLINICAL FEATURES of DISEASE (TD 8 b)
- TD 9: APPLICATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, METHOD AND KNOWLEDGE
- TD 10: APPLICATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE PRINCIPLES, METHOD AND KNOWLEDGE
- TD 11. PRINCIPLES, METHODS AND KNOWLEDGE OF POPULATION HEALTH
- TD 12; APPLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND APPROACHES TO MEDICAL RESEARCH
- TD 8: APPLICATION OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, METHOD AND KNOWLEDGE
- THE DOCTOR AS A PRACTITIONER
- TD 13: CARRY OUT A CONSULTATION WITH A PATIENT
- TD 14: DIAGNOSE AND MANAGE CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS
- Clinical skills: INTERPRETING FINDINGS AND INITIAL ASSESSMENT (TD 14 a-b)
- Clinical skills: PLANNING AND INTERPRETING INVESTIGATIONS (TD 14 c-d)
- Clinical skills: MAKING A DIAGNOSIS and CLINICAL JUDGEMENT (TD 14 e-f)
- Clinical skills: FORMULATING A TREATMENT PLAN (TD 14 g)
- Clinical skills: SURGERY and ANAESTHETICS (TD 14 g)
- Clinical skills: SUPPORTING PATIENTS and IDENTIFYING ABUSE and NEGLECT (TD 14 h-i)
- Clinical Skills: CARE OF PATIENTS AND RELATIVES AT END OF LIFE (TD 14 j)
- TD 15: COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITH PATIENTS AND COLLEAGUES
- TD 16: PROVIDE IMMEDIATE CARE IN MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
- TD 17: PRESCRIBE DRUGS SAFELY, EFFECTIVELY AND ECONOMICALLY
- TD 18: CARRY OUT PRACTICAL PROCEDURES SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY
- TD 19: USE INFORMATION EFFECTIVELY IN A MEDICAL CONTEXT
- THE DOCTOR AS A PROFESSIONAL
- TD 20: BEHAVE ACCORDING TO ETHICAL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES
- TD 21: REFLECT, LEARN AND TEACH OTHERS
- TD 22: LEARN AND WORK EFFECTIVELY WITHIN A MULT-PROFESSIONAL TEAM
- TD 23: PROTECT PATIENTS AND IMPROVE CARE
- Professional issues: DUTIES OF A DOCTOR (TD 23 a-b)
- Professional issues: MEDICAL FRAMEWORK IN THE UK (TD 23 c)
- Professional issues: RISK MANAGEMENT and PATIENT SAFETY (TD 23 d)
- Professional issues: GOVERNANCE, QUALITY MATTERS and AUDIT (TD 23 e)
- Professional issues: PERSONAL ATTITUDES and SELF CARE (TD 23 f-j)
TD 10: APPLICATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE PRINCIPLES, METHOD AND KNOWLEDGE: Medical knowledge: SOCIOLOGY (TD 10 a-e)
Index
- General Sociology Topics
- General Topics
- Outline current health policy regarding chronic illness
- Outline the biopsychosocial model of disease in relation to the public health model of healthcare
- Understand patient responses and stigma to being diagnosed with chronic illness
- Explore professional identity and dealing with uncertainty
- Outline the legal, moral and ethical responsibilities of patient care
- Describe how understanding a patient’s experience of illness may aid diagnosis and care
- Discuss basic principles of wider determinants of health, health inequalities, and health risks
- Outline the legal, moral and ethical responsibilities of patient care
- Outline the biopsychosocial model of disease in relation to the public health model of healthcare
- Explore professional identity and dealing with uncertainty
- Understand key concepts in health inequality. (GEP/HSPH)
- Describe the prevalence of chronic illness
- Discuss basic principles of wider determinants of health in relation to violence.
- Discuss basic principles of wider determinants of health, health inequalities, and health risks
- Outline policy and interventions aimed at reducing health inequality. (GEP/HSPH)
- Describe the relationship between social structure and health. (GEP/HSPH)
- Describe how understanding a patient’s experience of illness may aid diagnosis and care
- Understand key concepts in health inequality.
- Discuss basic principles of wider determinants of health in relation to violence.
- Describe the prevalence of chronic illness
- Outline current health policy regarding chronic illness
- Describe the relationship between social structure and health.
- Understand patient responses and stigma to being diagnosed with chronic illness
- Know the component disciplines which comprise the system
- Outline policy and interventions aimed at reducing health inequality.
- Understand implications of the debate on the role of the doctor. ()
- Health Inequality
- Understand and describe what is meant by class, relative poverty and social exclusion.
- Understand key concepts like class, relative poverty and social exclusion.
- Apply social science principles, method and knowledge to medical practice (click to see list) (YR5intro)
- Describe the key ways in which social structure and health are related.
- Describe the relationship between social structure and health.
- Offer valid explanations for the existence of noted health inequalities.
- Review key explanations for health inequalities.
- Outline policy and interventions aimed at reducing health inequality
- Identify social determinants of health (FM1)
- Outline the implications of inequality for health policy and medical practice.
- Consider the importance of social determinant of health on individuals and communities (FM1)
- Ethnicity and Health
- Know how to define ethnicity, culture and racism.
- Review and discuss key explanations for ethnic health differences.
- Describe the principles of culturally competent health care practice
- Know how to define ethnicity, culture and racism.
- Identify patterns of ill-health in relation to ethnicity.
- Identify patterns of ill-health in relation to ethnicity.
- Review and discuss key explanations for ethnic health differences.
- Describe the principles of culturally competent health care practice
- Know how to define Ethnicity, Culture and Racism.
- Identify patterns of ill-health in relation to ethnicity.
- Review and discuss key explanations for ethnic health differences.
- Describe the principles of culturally competent health care practice
- Older People, Illness and Society
- Summarise the changing demographics of ageing (GEP/HD, HD1)
- Describe changes in the demographics of ageing.
- Recognise that ageing is a natural, developmental process
- Describe some of the different ways that the elderly are regarded within different groups and communities
- Outline the differences between biological and social ageing.
- Describe different ways that the elderly are regarded within different groups and communities (MedSoc1)
- Describe the range of services, people and agencies that are involved in the support of the older patient in the local community
- Describe different experiences of later life.
- Describe the range of services, people and agencies that are involved in the support of the older patient in the local community (MedSoc1)
- Define ageism and age discrimination.
- Explain some of the implications for the health and social services of an ageing population
- Discuss the health and health care needs of older people
- Explain some of the implications for the health and social services of an ageing population (MedSoc1)
- To appreciate the social impact of an increasing elderly population both on the individual but also for families and wider society (CC4)
- Identify key policy documents relating to the care of older people
- Gender and Health
- Describe the changing relationship between social structure and gender.
- Describe the changing relationship between social structure and gender.
- Be aware of differential patterns of morbidity and mortality related to gender. Consider different causes for these patterns.
- Be aware of differential patterns of morbidity and mortality related to gender.
- Consider different causes for these patterns.
- Outline the implication of considerations related to gender on medical provision.
- Discuss key health concerns for men and women.
- Outline implications for healthcare.
- Diversity
- Chronic Illness and disability
- Stigma
- Outline the processes by which medicine is involved in social control
- Can define the concepts of "stigma" and "labelling"
- Can describe the relationship between stigma and illness
- Outline the processes in producing changes in patterns of behaviour
- Consider the experience of stigmatised illness
- Discuss three different approaches to the idea of risk
- Can appreciate implications for healthcare
- Practise interviewing a patient with an illness that could be seen as stigmatising (MedSoc1)
- Define the concept of labelling, and describe three major effects of chronic illness
- Discuss the psycho-social effects of a premature birth (GEP/HD, HD2)
- Organisation of health care
- Social support
- The nature of social support including social isolation, network size, and perceived and received functional support (emotional support, practical support, informational support).
- The role of social support as a protective/risk factor for mortality, as well as mental health, cardiovascular, immune, and endocrine end-points (including incidence, course, prognosis, recovery).
- The two dominant hypotheses linking social support and health: the stress buffering hypothesis and the direct effects hypothesis.
- Potential psychological, physiological, and behavioural mechanisms by which social support might influence physical and mental health.
- The importance of taking a social history addressing familial, occupational, and recreational aspects of the patient's personal life which have the potential to be clinically significant.
- Health across the life course
- Death, Dying and berevement
- Health beliefs and Behaviour
- Self Management
- Healthcare for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Define who qualifies as a refugee under the Geneva Refugee Convention.
- Explain why the UK accepts asylum seekers.
- List common barriers to healthcare faced by this group in the UK.
- Describe common physical and mental health problems in this patient group.
- Explain the role of the health care worker and common challenges with this group.
- Community Health
- Describe some of the reasons why patients present in general practice
- Be able to discuss the pros and cons of commonly used methods of family planning with a patient
- Recognise how cultural diversity affects the experience of health and healthcare services (MedSoc1)
- Reflect upon what your observations tell you about the area and the community. (MedSoc1)
- Describe some differences in relationships between patients and different members of the primary care team, and how these are expressed
- Describe some reasons why patients present in general practice (MedSoc1)
- Interpret information gathered through observation of the local area and reflect upon what your observations tell you about the area and the community
- Discuss the role of the primary care team in encouraging people to lead healthier lives (MedSoc1)
- Understand the effect of illness on the community (CC4, GP5)
- Child Poverty and Health
- Be able to discuss the pros and cons of commonly used methods of family planning with a patient
- Understand the extent of child poverty in the UK
- Identify the main social changes that have affected the family
- Review the relationship between poverty and ill-health in children
- Describe how families can affect the cause, course and outcome of illness
- Understand the value of examining health from a life course perspective
- Describe the Barker hypothesis and its implications for health
- Death and Dying
- Outline current trends in life expectancy
- Explore definitions and experiences of dying including the good death
- Examine different dying trajectories and the role of palliative medicine
- Demonstrate an understanding of the processes involved in normal grief and bereavement
- Discuss experiences of health professionals working with dying patients and their relatives
- Chronic Illness and Disability
- Describe the key factors that connect acute care, chronic disease management and prevention in modern medicine.
- Demonstrate an ability to understand the impact that chronic skin diseases have on a patient’s quality of life. (DERM4)
- Discuss the implications for the family of having a child with a disability (GEP/HD, HD2)
- Identify pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for chronic pain (MedSoc1)
- Explain how people typically cope with developing a chronic illness and their adaptation strategies.
- Discuss the particular difficulties that may be faced by adolescents and young adults with chronic cardiac disease (CR3)
- Describe the impact of cystic fibrosis on the education of young people
- General Topics