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**
April 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.
April’s cases centred on long term conditions and are designed to challenge, for some ST1’s, early ST2’s they may be better used as case discussions - trainers know their trainees and can adapt any of our resources for their trainees.
April’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.
May Cases will be released early May - 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 April
Although we’re releasing these resources in April 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 20th March
Communication Skills
This set of SCA cases focuses on long-term conditions in general practice, supporting trainees to manage clinical progression alongside patient priorities, beliefs, and lived experience.
The emphasis is on recognising when treatment escalation is required, explaining options clearly, and negotiating shared plans in the context of uncertainty, risk, and patient perspective — supporting the transition to independent practice expected at SCA level.
The cases can be used for self-directed learning, group teaching, or role-play. Each includes SCA-aligned marking domains and detailed feedback to support reflection and development.
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 13th 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.
April’s Clinical Conundrums
w/c 6th April
Hot Topic
Cardiovascular Inequalities in Practice
A case-based Hot Topics session examining how cardiovascular inequalities shape risk, presentation and outcomes in everyday general practice.
Through a longitudinal case, trainees are supported to:
recognise how cardiovascular risk develops over time
identify missed opportunities in prevention and follow-up
navigate risk communication and treatment negotiation
consider how patient, clinician and system factors influence outcomes
The focus is on clinical judgement, not recall — reflecting the realities of primary care and the complexity of preventive care in practice.
Click to download the resources
Slides (PowerPoint) & Facilitator Notes.
w/c 27th March
Genetics in Primary Care
A Structured, Approach for GP Training
Genetics in general practice is rarely about diagnosing rare conditions. It is about recognising patterns of inherited risk, navigating uncertainty, and supporting patients and families in complex decisions.
This session provides a structured, practical framework for approaching genetics in everyday consultations with clarity and appropriate clinical judgement.
Using realistic GP scenarios — including familial cancer risk, antenatal concerns, predictive testing dilemmas, and the psychosocial impact of genetic diagnosis — trainees practise applying:
Recognition of inherited risk in primary care
Structured 3-generation family history
Interpretation of patterns requiring referral
Communication of risk and uncertainty
Ethical decision-making in family-based information
The emphasis is not on detailed genetic science. It is on recognising when genetics matters, responding appropriately, and supporting patients through uncertainty.
Trainees work through case-based discussions, identify the GP’s role, and develop approaches to explanation, referral, and ongoing support within the limits of primary care.
Includes:
Facilitator guidance
Case discussion scenarios
Ethical and psychosocial challenges
Structured prompts to support discussion and reflection
Clear take-home principles for clinical practice
Genetics is not about knowing everything. It is about recognising when it matters — and knowing what to do next.
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