Essential Guide to the RCA for the MRCGP

Talha Sami (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2022
Scion Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-911510-96-3 (ISBN)

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This book provides a practical guide to help nervous candidates, and particularly International Medical Graduates (IMGs), prepare effectively for the Recorded Consultation Assessment (RCA). This exam has replaced the CSA element of the MRCGP exams due to Covid-19.

The Recorded Consultation Assessment (RCA) represents a significant change for a generation of doctors used to taking practical exams featuring actors. The RCA exam is based on recordings of your telephone and video consultations with genuine patients, but of course patients don’t present or respond quite like actors do!

This full-colour book provides a practical guide to help nervous candidates, and particularly International Medical Graduates (IMGs), prepare effectively, with useful advice on:

Common pitfalls
Working with your practice team to identify the patients you need
Obtaining consent
Differentiating between low and high challenge cases, and which topics to avoid
Setting up the technology for telephone, video and face-to-face consultations
How to perform well in each of the core domains

In addition, the book takes you through all aspects of using the FourteenFish platform to record, assess and submit your consultations, with screenshots used to illustrate every step.

If you need help to prepare from someone who passed the exam as part of the first cohort, who has run RCA exam preparation courses, and who has checked what is required with trainers and programme directors, then you need this book!

Really packed with practical and clinical tips
Covers everything you need to know before submitting
A stress-free way to prepare for the exam

Acknowledgements; Preface; About the authors

PART I: Introduction to the Recorded Consultation Assessment (RCA)

1Introduction

2What is the RCA?

2.1Policies

2.2Marking

2.3New changes

2.4Breaches

3The differences between the RCA, the CSA and real-life consultations

3.1The linear path of a consultation

3.2Technology

3.3Pre-consultation

3.4Your communication style

3.5The third wheel

3.6Multiple problems leading to multiple paths

3.7Information-gathering routes

3.8That golden minute

3.9Time difference

4Common pitfalls

4.1Feedback by domain

4.2Global feedback

4.3Data gathering, technical and assessment skills

4.4Interpersonal skills

4.5Clinical management

4.6Your pitfalls

5Which cases to submit? (contributing author: Pernia Javid)

5.1Is it appropriate?

5.2Telephone, face-to-face or video?

5.3Domains

5.4Clinical topics

5.5Appropriate challenge cases

5.6The workbook

5.7Your logbook

6Preparing for and booking the RCA

6.1Identifying your weaknesses

6.2When to sit the exam?

6.3Teamwork

6.4The triage system

6.5Recording

6.6A preparatory checklist

6.7Booking the RCA

6.8Using the FourteenFish system

6.9Planning how to get ready for the RCA checklist

PART II: How to record for the RCA

7Consent (contributing author: Abraham Thomas)

7.1How can you obtain consent?

7.2How FourteenFish records consent

7.3Showing consent for a recording made outside of FourteenFish

7.4How will the recordings be stored?

8How to set up the technology

8.1Signal and internet

8.2What you need to know before recording

8.3What you need for a telephone consultation

8.4What you need for a video consultation

8.5 What you need for a face-to-face video consultation

8.6 Uploading from outside the FourteenFish platform

8.7 Deleting the file

8.8 How to record checklist

PART III: The consultation

9Pre-consultation (contributing author: Rakin Anwar)

9.1Everyday routine

9.2Images

9.3Patient research

10Interpersonal skills (contributing author: Rohan Lakhani)

10.1How do you act?

10.2Covid-specific communication challenges

11Data gathering (contributing author: Rakin Anwar)

11.1Introduction for a telephone/video consultation

11.2Introduction for a face-to-face recording

11.3Structured history

11.4Special circumstances

11.5General examination

11.6Examination when remote consulting

12Clinical management (contributing author: Rakin Anwar)

12.1How to explain the management plan

12.2Making it patient-centred

12.3Logistics

12.4Prescribing

12.5Health promotion

12.6Safety-netting

12.7Consenting again

PART IV: The final steps to submit for the RCA

13The workbook

13.1Workbook examples

13.2Mandatory criteria

14The final steps to submit through FourteenFish (contributing author: Abraham Thomas)

14.1Verification of cases by your trainer

14.2Checking the final 13 cases

14.3The final submission

Erscheinungsdatum	13.01.2022
Verlagsort	Bloxham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
ISBN-10	1-911510-96-7 / 1911510967
ISBN-13	978-1-911510-96-3 / 9781911510963
Zustand	Neuware