ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what is best learned in general practice, and how this relates to a curriculum that guides learning throughout an entire training programme. It describes into some educational theory so that supervisors can better understand the origin of the tasks they are given by the educational organisation. The current approach is to express curriculum content in terms of 'domains' of competence, or conceptual themes of ideas and attributes required by competent professionals, with other information that guides educational development, such as age groups, presenting complaints or systems. Curriculum blueprints often have the effect of making curricula appear to be quite compact, with components of competency appearing to have precise relationships with each other. Curriculum topics, listed here as women's health, child health, and communication skills. The chapter provides an overview of current curriculum development issues in order to explain where a practice attachment fits into a broader curriculum framework.
