Community Sexual and Reproductive Health Specialty Training Programme (CSRH)

Introduction to the new CSRH Curriculum

• The new CSRH curriculum has been designed to equip the SRH profession with all the skills, knowledge and attributes needed for the future, and will be implemented from 1 August 2021.
• All colleges and specialties are required by the General Medical Council to move to a high-level outcomes approach. This means specifying the general capabilities that all doctors should have by the end of their training programme. This is a very different approach to the current one which is based on the notion of competency in clinical skills and procedures.
• The core training programme will remain at 6 years, with waypoints also remaining the same.
• Much of the current clinical content is the same. However it will be described, packaged and assessed differently.
• The new curriculum is designed to promote and encourage the exercise of professional judgement, both by the Trainee and the trainer. This is a fundamental concept of the new curriculum.
• The current emphasis on tick-boxes and numbers of assessments will be replaced by an expectation that the Trainee doctor will take responsibility for their own learning, by deciding what evidence will be appropriate to demonstrate progress, and by assessing their own performance.
• Likewise, Educational Supervisors will make global assessments of a Trainee’s performance and make a recommendation to the ARCP panel as to progression. The final decision as to progression will rest with the ARCP panel.
• Detailed guidance for Trainees and Educational Supervisors on the expectations for each year and stage of training has been developed. This guidance is integrated in to the ePortfolio.
• The curriculum will be delivered through a new version of the ePortfolio which has been designed specifically for our curriculum. All Trainees and Educational Supervisors will be able to access their old and new curricula on the new version.

Download the full Curriculum Definitive Document

Watch an introductory Video about the new Curriculum by Dr Janet Barter

Download a slideset about the new Curriculum by Dr Catherine Schunmann

For a brief introduction to the organising principles of the curriculum, as well as the Capabilities in Practice, terminology and useful links, you should access the documents below.

The Curriculum – an overview of the curriculum and its concepts and terminology with links to the CiP Guides

Definitive Document – the authoritative GMC approved full curriculum and assessment framework

CiP Guides – a guide to each of the Capabilities in Practice

Knowledge Requirements – everything you need to know for the CSRH and MFSRH

Trainee Handbook (to follow)

Watch a video about the detail of the new Curriculum by Dr Catherine Schunmann

Each CiP has its own Guide. Download the Guides for the CiP you are interested in.

CiP 1 CiP 2 CiP 3 CiP 4 CiP 5 

CiP 6 CiP 7 CiP 8 CiP 9 CiP 10

There are a number of procedural skills in which a trainee must become proficient to the level expected by the end of training. Trainees must be able to outline the indications for these procedures and recognise the importance of valid informed consent, and of requesting help when appropriate. For all practical procedures the trainee must be able to recognise complications and respond appropriately if they arise, including calling for help from colleagues in other specialties when necessary. Trainees will be able to record their procedures in the updated ePortfolio. Assessment of procedural skills will be made using the OSATS tool.

When a trainee has been signed off as being able to perform a procedure independently, they are not required to have any further assessment (OSATS) of that procedure, unless they or their Educational Supervisor think that this is required (in line with standard professional conduct).
CESR applicants should provide evidence that they can perform all these procedures independently in their GMC submission.

Download the List of CSRH Procedures

This page contains links to Word versions of various non-assessment forms for the benefit of CESR applicants who do not have access to the ePortfolio. Trainees will have automatic access through the ePortfolio. You should click on the link to download the form in Word.

Procedure log General log 

Meeting form Personal Development Plan (PDP)

Although the tools for assessment are fundamentally the same, the emphasis in the new curriculum is on the quality rather than the quantity of assessments. There is now an overall Programme of Assessment which is linked to the Capabilities in Practice, and the assessment process contains a much greater degree of self-assessment by the trainee. Use the links below to find out more.

Links

You can find general details of how the assessment process works in this summary document and fuller details in the Guidance Note.

You can find a description of the Levels of Supervision in this document

You can download this presentation to use for local training sessions.

Find more detail about each of the workplace-based assessments.

For a full description of the Assessment Framework you should download the Definitive Document.

The FSRH has put together a complete list of the knowledge that trainees will be expected to acquire over their training programme. The list is comprehensive, showing what topics will be needed for each Capability in Practice. The list also constitutes the syllabus for the MFSRH Examination. This document is expected to be used by both trainees and examination candidates.

Knowledge Requirements

Workplace-based assessments
There are a number of workplace-based assessment tools that should be used throughout training to evidence progress.

For a description of each type of assessment, you should see Workplace-based assessments.

To understand what you have to do in order to progress through training, you should see the Matrix of Progression.

To download a form in Word, just click on the relevant button

Summative OSATS Formative OSATS CbD form

Mini-CEX form TO1 form SO1 form 

Reflective Practice form Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire

The matrix of progression has been adapted for the new curriculum.

Here you can find the Matrix of Annual Expectation of Educational Progression ST1 to 6 in Community Sexual and Reproductive Health - March 2021 for ARCP in COVID-19 period and beyond. This Matrix applies for the upcoming ARCP in September 2021.