Useful links

General advice
The Royal College of General Practitioners’ website has a dedicated training section many useful resources including:

Details of the Postgraduate Training Board
ePortfolio Login
The RCGP Curriculum

The initial chapter of the GP Curriculum Statements (‘Being a GP’) is particularly useful as it contains a thorough background, detailed learning outcomes, and clearly mapped links between the curriculum and ‘Good Medical Practice’ (the GMC’s guidance on the duties of a doctor).

Flexible learning suggestions for GPs including podcasts and vodcasts*

Living with Disability: How does living with disability and chronic illness impact on a person's quality of life?
The Pain Clinic: How do you deal with constant, chronic pain?
Social Care Past and Present: Focusing mainly on care of the elderly, and people with physical or mental disabilities
Facilitating Creative Thinking: Workshops in creative problem-solving

*Content accessed through iTunes and provided by The Open University.

Apps for Docs: Useful Android, BlackBerry and iPhone apps for doctors

Icon	Name	Summary
	Medscape	Healthcare reference app including drug reference, drug interaction checker, disease and condition reference, procedures and protocols, and news.
	MedCalc	A free medical calculator that provides easy access to complicated medical formulas, scores, scales and classifications.
	The 5-Minute Paediatric Consult	Provides point-of-care advice on problems seen in infants, children and adolescents with more than 460 diseases in a unique format. Other features include entries addressing the workup and treatment of 50 chief complaints, plus a medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, laboratory values and tables.
	Medical Encyclopedia	A free, basic medical encyclopaedia.
	Normal Lab Values	Displays normal laboratory values to help medical professionals interpret test results.
	Diagnosaurus DDx	Quickly search over 1,000 diagnoses by organ system, symptom, disease, or view all entries, and quickly view alternative diagnoses and link to those entries.
	Epocrates	A mobile drug reference resource used by healthcare providers at the point of care providing an integrated set of features such as pill identifier, formulary data and dosing calculator.
	iRadiology	Lieberman's iRadiology Classics Collection is a compendium of over 500 unique images demonstrating the classic radiological findings of a multitude of abnormalities. Unlabeled images can be chosen from topics organized by organ system and pathological entity. Aimed at medical students but useful for a radiology refresher.
	NeuroMind	A tool containing a wide range of information, from basic neuro-anatomy to the WHO Safe Surgery checklist items

Suggest your favourite app
Please email Benjamin.Cerezo@imperial.nhs.uk with other suitable apps and we can update the list above.

Other useful links

The Royal College or General Practitioners: Improving the education and training of GPs
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Lead provider with consortium partners for education in Northwest London for core medicine, core surgery, core psychiatry and the innovative General Practice training programme pilot under NHS London’s Medical and Dental Education Commissioning System (MDECS) programme
NHS Hammersmith and Fulham: Lead provider consortium partner
Central and Northwest London Foundation Trust: Lead provider consortium partner
West London Mental Health Trust: Local education provider for core psychiatry education and psychiatry placements for innovative general practice training programme pilot
The London Deanery: Responsible for postgraduate medical and dental training in London
The General Medical Council: Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice
The Department of Health: Policy, guidance and publications for NHS and social care professionals
The British Medical Association: Standing up for doctors
Pulse: General practice news online

* Please note that Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and its consortium partners do not endorse the content of any of these links or apps, nor do they accept any liability that comes about as a result of using them.