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
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.
**Monthly Cases**
February Cases Available
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
February’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.
March Cases will be release early March - subscribe if you want to be emailed when they go live!
Cervical Cancer:
GP Trainee SDL Resource
This resource is presented as a navigable slide deck designed for GP trainees as a self-directed learning resource, but may also be useful for trainers to signpost trainees to, or to dip into selectively during 1:1 tutorials.
Sections can be used to:
introduce or reinforce understanding of cervical screening and HPV vaccination
support discussion of red-flag symptoms and referral decisions
link clinical learning to AKT and SCA themes
Chapters:
Basics & pathophysiology
Prevention (HPV vaccination)
Cervical screening
Presentation, red flags & referral
Prognosis, treatment and GP Role
Cervical cancer in the AKT & SCA
New resources released each month
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Half Day Release Resources
Planning Resources
Teaching Sessions for February
Although we’re releasing these resources in February 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 February
Communication Skills
All cases this month reflect typical ENT presentations seen in general practice.
They offer sufficient challenge for use in SCA preparation sessions, while also allowing time and space to work through the same scenarios in greater depth with ST1 and ST2 trainees to develop knowledge and consultation skills.
Always useful to do role play sessions. The cases here come with doctors note, script, management references, a marking scheme within the SCA domains. For ST3’s this may work well. You may choose to ditch the marking scheme for ST1 and ST2’s and give more qualitative/narrative feedback.
These cases can be used with actors or trainees being the patient (don’t underestimate the value of the latter , particularly for trainees who struggle with empathy or valuing patient priorities)
w/c 16th January
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.
February’s Clinical Conundrums
w/c 2nd February
Hot Topic
Vaccination in Practice - Confidence, Change & Clinical Reasoning
A practical, educator-led teaching session for GP trainees focusing on how the UK vaccination programme evolves and how to explain vaccination decisions confidently in everyday practice.
Using recent updates (including varicella and HPV) as worked examples, this session helps trainees:
understand how and why vaccination programmes change
handle common vaccination questions in primary care
recognise what matters for safe, confident decision-making
develop clear, trust-preserving explanations for patients and parents
Designed for 30–60 minutes, with flexibility for discussion.
This is not an exam-focused session — it prioritises fluency, reasoning, and real GP consultations.
w/c 23rd February
Neonatal presentations
Neonatal presentations in general practice can feel disproportionately high-stakes. Many are common and benign, some are genuinely concerning, and a small number are time-critical. This educator-led session supports GP trainees to move from medical-school knowledge to confident, independent decision-making in primary care.
The session focuses on recognising what is normal, what is concerning, and what requires escalation, using realistic GP cases and structured discussion rather than checklists or hospital-based teaching. Emphasis is placed on judgement, pattern recognition, and clear explanation to parents, rather than diagnostic labels.
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