This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners provides worked examples of cases where patients have refused treatment or threatened to leave the hospital. It considers what action can be taken by healthcare professionals to treat such patients safely and within the law. It covers the assessment of capacity and the treatment of patients under the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners aims to provide guidance about the issues which limit access to primary care services by people with learning disabilities and how these can be overcome.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners considers the management of children who present with acute abdominal pain in general practice. The management of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain is discussed in the e-GP micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners Recurrent abdominal pain in children.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners considers the assessment and management of acute wheeze in children of different ages.

This is the first of two micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners covering the fundamentals of consulting skills. The four categories are: establishing rapport, eliciting information, responding to cues and building concordance. These are skills you are likely to need in all of your consultations.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners considers the value that evidence-based practice brings to GPs and their patients. You will learn some of the basic skills needed.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners will assist general practitioners and their staff in understanding the origins and importance of significant event audit (SEA). For practical application see micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners - How to Perform Significant Event Audit Successfully in Your Practice.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners provides a practical example of how to apply prospective risk assessment to general practice. Using an example of setting up a nurse-led clinic in a practice, it illustrates how prospective risk assessment can identify and mitigate risks before they lead to harm.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners describes the main tools used to assess trainee GPs and distinguishes between formative and summative forms of assessment.

The aim of this micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners is to get you to think about communication skills and whether basic skills are sufficient for communicating effectively with patients.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners discusses the management of back pain lasting longer than 6 weeks. It examines factors which may lead to chronic back pain and the differences between mechanical pain and pain due to nerve root compression.

This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners discusses the common causes of serious pathology in back pain and the red flags that patients present with that would increase your clinical suspicion. Common signs and symptoms are presented.