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Assessment
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Assessments are judgements against a standard. These judgements can be for learning and/or for privileging (refer below).
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Codified knowledge
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Knowledge that can be described and understood with language. Defined competencies are codified knowledge.
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Determinants of health
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Factors that influence the health status of individuals or a population; they are determined by complex interactions of socioeconomic, environmental and behavioural factors.7
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Education
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Includes all modes of learning, training, professional development and assessment.
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Educational programs
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A coherent set or sequence of educational activities designed and organised to achieve specific learning objectives and outcomes.
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Education providers
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Anyone providing approved programs of general practice education and training. It includes education providers, supervisors and clinical placements.40
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Educational scholarship
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Knowledge-based educational research and practice. Knowledge is derived from evidence, theory, critical reflection and peer review.41
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Evaluation
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An activity that facilitates evidence-based improvements in program outcomes and processes.
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Extended skills
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Skills related to health and medicine that are relevant to general practice but go beyond the core skills required by GPs.
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Framework
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A conceptual structure for placing things in relation to each other.
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Health inequities
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Systematic differences in the opportunities groups have to achieve optimal health, leading to unfair and avoidable differences in health outcomes.7
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Imperatives
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Important internal and external demands that RACGP education must address and meet. These underpin the RACGP educational guiding principles that anchor the educational framework.
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Person-centred healthcare
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Positions the patient as a whole person, including their life and social context, disease as an illness experience, and healthcare as based on the doctor–patient relationship with a focus on enabling the patient to manage their own wellbeing.1
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Privileging
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Social privileges accessible through RACGP education, including entering a general practice training program, progression through training, eligibility for Fellowship examination, awarding of qualifications, admission to Fellowship, ongoing status as a Fellow and recognition of skills by external bodies.
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RACGP educational management
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The staff, managers and organisational structures responsible for decisions and activities related to the management of RACGP education.
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Tacit knowledge
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Knowing that is beyond verbalised or codified knowledge. This includes embodied knowledge such as knowing an identity.
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Work-based learning
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Education that occurs in the context of being engaged in work.22
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