Educators’ Corner - Resources to Teaching GP Consultation and Communication Skills
The GP Fluency Educators’ Corner provides practical teaching resources to support GP trainers and educators working with trainees across GP specialty training.
The focus is on developing consultation and communication skills to an SCA level and independent practice, including supporting trainees to identify, understand and use psychosocial context alongside clinical information.
Resources are designed to be flexible and easy to integrate into supervision, teaching sessions and small-group learning.
Trainer Tools
**Monthly Cases**
March Cases
Each month, we’ll be sharing two brand new ready to use cases; each evidenced against latest guidance (always referenced) and RCGP standards (COTs/SCA aligned.
These are designed to be used in, and support trainers, in tutorials, or one-to-one supervision. These cases are designed to reflect real-world general practice, with opportunities to explore clinical reasoning, communication skills, and patient-centred management
They are developed so that the trainer can use with ST1, ST2 and ST3 resident doctors, using their discretion with the psychosocial and patient attitudes and beliefs to increase the challenge as needed
March’s cases (click on them to download):
Each case pack includes:
Doctor’s notes
Patient script
Evidence-based guidance with relevant links (NICE, CKS, BNF, etc.)
Optional tutor guidance for qualitative feedback
Whether used as part of assessments or broader consultation skills teaching, these cases are designed to prompt discussion, encourage reflection, and support confident, structured learning.
April Cases will be release early April - subscribe if you want to be emailed when they go live!
Supporting AKT Readiness in GP Training
Trainer Frameworks for Structured AKT Preparation
The Applied Knowledge Test is often framed as an individual revision challenge.
In practice, applied performance develops within supervision.
These GP Fluency toolkits are designed for Clinical and Educational Supervisors who want to move beyond generic revision advice and actively shape AKT readiness through everyday training.
They focus on what trainers can meaningfully influence:
Depth of clinical knowledge
Decision thresholds and applied reasoning
Exam technique and thinking patterns
Structured, purposeful self-directed learning
Post-result diagnostic review and targeted rebuild
Supporting AKT Success Before the First Sitting
A structured framework for embedding applied reasoning into routine supervision.
This toolkit covers knowledge depth, applied clinical reasoning, exam technique, revision strategy, and practical supervisory interventions that fit naturally into clinics, tutorials and debriefs.
Supporting a Trainee After AKT Failure
Supports supervisors to hold the initial conversation, manage the immediate impact, explore contributing factors without judgement, review performance and support their trainee to develop a clear plan towards a confident resit at the appropriate time.
Both these resources are grounded in real GP training practice.
They do not add work. They bring clarity and structure to work already being done.
AKT preparation is not separate from supervision.
It is supervision delivered with intention
Find the IMP
Supporting purposeful psychosocial exploration and tailored management in GP training
GP trainees are often able to ask about work, home life, or stress, yet struggle to use this information meaningfully in prioritisation and management. Psychosocial enquiry can become performative, with valuable context gathered but left disconnected from clinical decision making.
Find the IMP (Impact, Meaning, Priorities) is a practical educational scaffold that helps trainees move from eliciting psychosocial information to using it to inform agenda setting, negotiation, and management planning.
By focusing on:
Impact — how illness affects daily life and functioning
Meaning — what the problem represents for the patient
Priorities — what matters most at that point in time
educators can support trainees to translate contextual understanding into patient-centred, realistic plans.
Find the IMP is not a consultation model or a script. It is a flexible thinking aid that complements existing consultation frameworks and provides a shared language for teaching, supervision, and feedback — particularly in complex or challenging consultations.
Half Day Release Resources
Planning Resources
Teaching Sessions for March
Although we’re releasing these resources in March they’re designed to be flexible. Use them now if you’re ready, or save them for later in the training year when they best fit your programme.
Whenever you choose to use them, we hope they save you time and spark meaningful learning for your trainees.
w/c 9th March
Communication Skills
This month’s SCA-standard cases focus on managing complexity in neurodiverse patients and third-party consultations — areas that frequently challenge trainees in the Communication and Clinical Management domains.
Across four structured cases, trainees practise:
Managing parent and carer consultations ethically
Avoiding diagnostic overshadowing in autism and learning disability
Distinguishing anxiety, burnout and depression
Recognising new-onset neurological red flags
Navigating EHCP, school and supported-living systems
Setting proportionate boundaries without relational rupture
Each case is fully mapped to the RCGP SCA domains and includes:
Doctor brief
Actor script
Evidence-based UK management plan
Structured initial management framework
Examiner-facing assessment grid
Common trainee errors and high-scoring behaviours
w/c 16th March
Clinical Conundrums
20-30minutes starter to create energised discussions
Quick Random Scenarios - Give Trainees 5 minutes in small groups
Come back together - What did they decide & why -Explore as needed.
March’s Clinical Conundrums
w/c 2nd March
Hot Topic
Assessing emotional distress in young people can feel uncertain and polarised. This 50–60 minute, discussion-led session sharpens clinical judgement for ST2/ST3 teaching in real-world primary care.
Built around four anchors — Risk, Function, Duration, Context — trainees use three contrasting cases to distinguish development, distress and disorder, and calibrate proportionate responses.
The session focuses on:
Assessing function before diagnosing
Validating without medicalising
Identifying risk without over-referring
Escalating safely when thresholds are met
Managing parental pressure and CAMHS expectations
This is a structured, contained session centred on clinical reasoning and proportionate safety.
Includes:
Slide deck, detailed facilitator notes, trainee handout, case pack, and optional risk terminology clarification.
Designed for confident delivery without extensive preparation.
Our role is not to diagnose every emotion —
but to identify risk, protect safety and avoid creating illness where there is distress, while never missing emerging disorder.
w/c 23rd March
Confidentiality, Consent & Capacity
A Structured, Approach for GP Training
Confidentiality decisions in general practice are rarely theoretical. They are time-pressured, ambiguous and professionally exposed.
This session provides a structured framework for navigating information sharing, consent and capacity with clarity and defensible reasoning.
Using realistic GP scenarios — including police requests, adolescent confidentiality, fluctuating capacity, and informal disclosure risks — trainees practise applying:
The 6 Question Test for disclosure
GMC Good Medical Practice (2024)
UK Data Protection principles
Mental Capacity Act (2005)
Gillick competence and Fraser guidance
Proportionate documentation
The emphasis is not on memorising rules.
It is on structured reasoning, proportionality and professional judgement.
Trainees work through group cases, identify the primary legal/ethical lens, decide action and draft defensible notes that could withstand scrutiny from patient, police or regulator.
Includes:
Structured slide deck
Facilitator guidance
Case discussion scenarios
Documentation challenges (poor vs strong examples)
Clear consolidation rules for practice
Confidentiality is not about secrecy.
It is about sharing safely, lawfully and proportionately — and documenting why.
Designed for ST2/ST3 teaching, AKT preparation and SCA communication calibration.
Premium Services - Clinical Cases for GP Teaching Programmes
4 Cases with doctors brief, patient’s script and marking scheme matched to SCA domains.
All within the Women’s Health Curriculum - perfect for SCA preparation or communication skills sessions on this challenging area of the RCGP curriculum
A secure link is sent to you to download after payment received
A ready-to-use set of four high-quality role play cases, perfect for a GP teaching session focused on communication skills. Each case includes candidate notes, patient script, & educators brief/marking guide mapped to RCGP SCA domains.
Curriculum-linked
Realistic scenarios
Saves hours of educator prep time
All ready-to-use sets are sent, as PDF’s, within 2 working days
Your own six-case SCA mock exam, we use your brief to provide cases which meet your teaching priorities. If you wish to cover specific clinical topics, specific consultation challenges, then opt for our bespoke service and we’ll provide you with 6 cases aligned to the RCGP SCA and your brief
Customised
Curriculum-mapped
Delivered within 1 week via email
Perfect for educators who want a truly tailored exam experience for their trainees.
*Purchase Orders
If your organisation requires a Purchase Order (PO) before confirming a booking, GP Fluency will provide a pro forma invoice or quotation on request. This document will outline the agreed services, costs, and terms to support your internal approval process. Once a valid PO number has been issued and acknowledged, the delivery timeline will begin, and GP Fluency will proceed with fulfilling your order. Please contact us via the custom requests or contact us page
Run a full, timed mock SCA in your programme with six ready-to-use cases that reflect the breadth of the GP curriculum. Includes patient scripts, candidate briefs, examiners mark schemes and notes.
For use in 12minute SCA Remote Consultations
Easily used for in person Mocks too (note there are no physical examinations in line with SCA expectations)
Designed to challenge and support
Ready for you to use on receiving
Everything you need to deliver a high-quality mock exam without the hours of case writing.
All ready-to-use sets are sent within 2 working days via email
Premium Services - Mock SCA Resources for GP Teaching Programmes
Run a full, timed mock SCA in your programme with six ready-to-use cases that reflect the breadth of the GP curriculum. Includes patient scripts, candidate briefs, examiners mark schemes and notes.
For use in 12minute SCA Remote Consultations
Easily used for in person Mocks too (note there are no physical examinations in line with SCA expectations)
Designed to challenge and support
Ready for you to use on receiving
Everything you need to deliver a high-quality mock exam without the hours of case writing.
All ready-to-use sets are sent within 2 working days via email
Your own six-case SCA mock exam, we use your brief to provide cases which meet your teaching priorities. If you wish to cover specific clinical topics, specific consultation challenges, then opt for our bespoke service and we’ll provide you with 6 cases aligned to the RCGP SCA and your brief
Customised
Curriculum-mapped
Delivered within 1 week via email
Perfect for educators who want a truly tailored exam experience for their trainees.
*Purchase Orders
If your organisation requires a Purchase Order (PO) before confirming a booking, GP Fluency will provide a pro forma invoice or quotation on request. This document will outline the agreed services, costs, and terms to support your internal approval process. Once a valid PO number has been issued and acknowledged, the delivery timeline will begin, and GP Fluency will proceed with fulfilling your order. Please contact us via the custom requests or contact us page
Custom Requests
Need something different? Whether it’s a short case for a teaching session, or an extended role play for a specific skill area, contact us with your request and we’ll see what’s possible