Is general practice simply a vehicle for delivering the generic skills, knowledge, and professionalism that students must acquire during their time at medical school? Or is it an academic discipline that needs to be taught to medical students in its own right? For several years this has been the subject of much debate in the UK. Most specialties (for example psychiatry and obstetrics and gynaecology ) have produced their own national undergraduate curricula. General practice has been the odd one out; that was until October 2018 when the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) published . This is the closest we have come to having a national undergraduate curriculum for general practice in the UK.
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