title: Procedural skills in general practice vocational training - what should be taught?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A list of procedural skills is an important component of a curriculum for general practice vocational training. This study aimed to establish an up-to-date list of core procedural skills that doctors undergoing general practice vocational training should be taught.
  
  
  METHODS
  A Delphi process was used to rank the importance of 185 general practice procedures. In 2009, 31 general practitioners took part in a two round Delphi process. A 4-point Likert scale was used to rate the importance of each procedure in vocational training.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean rating scores for all the procedural items listed were determined, and a core list of 112 procedures was agreed on the basis of the relative importance of procedures determined by the Delphi participants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The ranked list of clinical procedures provides a resource to form the basis of a procedures training curriculum which can be adapted to different general practice training contexts.
authors.affiliation: Scone, New South Wales, Australia. sylvests@tpg.com.au
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sylvester
authors.forename: Parker
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Magin
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sweeney
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D003697:Delphi Technique; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D058005:General Practitioners; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016730:Program Development; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards; D013663:Teaching