General practice and primary healthcare presentations and conditions:
Presentations
Abdominal distension
Abnormal urinalysis
Acute abdominal pain
Bleeding from lower GI tract
Breast lump
Breast tenderness/pain
Breathlessness
Change in bowel habit
Chest pain
Chronic abdominal pain
Chronic kidney disease
Constipation
Cough
Diarrhoea
Driving advice
Fatigue
Fever
Haematuria
Haemoptysis
Hypertension
Lymphadenopathy
Nausea
Painful swollen leg
Perianal symptoms
Peripheral oedema and ankle swelling
Urinary symptoms
Weight gain
Weight loss
Conditions
Acute bronchitis
Adverse drug effects
Allergic disorder
Anaemia
Anal fissure
Arrhythmias
Asthma
Asthma COPD overlap syndrome
Cardiac failure
Chronic kidney disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Constipation
Diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2
Diverticular disease
Essential or secondary hypertension
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
Haemorrhoids
Hiatus hernia
Hypothyroidism
Influenza
Irritable bowel syndrome
Ischaemic heart disease
Myocardial infarction
Obesity
Peripheral vascular disease
Pneumonia
Upper respiratory tract infection
Urinary tract infection
Varicose veins
Vasovagal syncope
Venous ulcers
Viral gastroenteritis
This year there will be GP based data interpretation questions in your year 3 exams. Please take all opportunities to review blood test results, ECGs, lung function tests (e.g. spirometry). Learn to link patient symptoms and signs with data e.g. ECG showing atrial fibrillation.
www.patient.co.uk Really helpful clinician and patient information, GPs use this a lot.
www.gpnotebook.co.uk Helpful for GP information on diagnosis and managment, you need to make an account.
https://cks.nice.org.uk/ Primary care, best practice scenarios
https://www.pcds.org.uk/general-dermatology-table#general-dermatology-diagnostic-table useful dermatology website
https://dermnetnz.org/ useful dermatology website