Themes serve as scaffolding around which different specialties specify coordinated learning objectives and collaborate to deliver an integrated programme over the three-year period of the clinical course. Themes run throughout the three year course and learning and teaching in these areas forms the backbone of the Review and Integration programme.

The curriculum themes are as follows:

• Core Science and Pathology
• Clinical Communication Skills
• Practical Procedures
• Diagnostic reasoning and Patient Investigation
• Therapeutics and Patient Management
• Professionalism, comprising
  • Professional behaviour
  • Medical Ethics and Law
  • Multiprofessional Teamworking
  • Reflection, learning and teaching
  • Management and Leadership
  • Patient Safety
• Public and Population Health
• Palliative Care
• Research and the INSPIRE programme