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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on November 29, 2006
Rheumatology 2007 46(2):360-362; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel357
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Development of a competency framework for general practitioners with a special interest in musculoskeletal/rheumatology practice

E. M. Hay1, A. Campbell2, S. Linney1, E. Wise3 on behalf of the Musculoskeletal GPwSI Working Group

1Primary Care Musculoskeletal Research Centre, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK,2Richmond Medical Centre, Sheffield, UK, 3Department of Rheumatology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE7 7DN, UK, and Musculoskeletal GPwSI Working Group, Dr Ade Adebajo, Dr Mike Burke, Dr Anita Campbell, Dr Vince Cooper, Dr Graham Davenport, Dr Mark Devlin, Dr Adrian Dunbar, Dr John Dickson, Dr Libby Duffy, Dr Richard Ellis, Prof. Elaine Hay, Dr Andrew Hassell, Dr Sarah Linney, Dr Garth Logan, Dr Steve Longworth, Dr Bharat Nanavati, Dr Cliff Richards, Dr Peter Skew, Dr John Tanner, Dr Louise Warburton, Dr Elspeth Wise.

Correspondence to: Prof. Elaine M. Hay, Primary Care Musculoskeletal Research Group, Primary Care Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. E-mail: e.m.hay@keele.ac.uk

KEY WORDS: General practitioner, Primary care, Musculoskeletal, Competency, Curriculum

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   Background
 
This document outlines a competency framework for general practitioners with a special interest (GPwSI) in musculoskeletal/rheumatology practice, which has been developed by a working group, consisting of clinicians from general practice, musculoskeletal medicine and rheumatology including representatives from the Primary Care Rheumatology Society, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the British Institute for Musculoskeletal Medicine, the British Society for Rheumatology, The Royal College of Physicians and the Arthritis Research Campaign (GP Working Party of the Education Subcommittee). The objective of this working group was to bring together appropriate expertise to debate the content of a curriculum for GPwSI's working within the musculoskeletal/rheumatology field, and to produce a framework of appropriate competencies (knowledge and skills) to inform the content of such a curriculum.

The Working Party acknowledged that the confusion still exists about the definition of a GPwSI [1]. For this piece of work the following definition was agreed:

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   Process
 
Phases 1 and 2
Phase 3
Phase 4

   Competency Framework for Musculoskeletal/Rheumatology GPwSIs
 
Communication skills
Ethical and legal responsibilities
Role within the health service
Condition-specific competencies

   Summary
 

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