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Urdu
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Ukrainian
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O&G Curriculum 2019
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Core Curriculum
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Core Curriculum
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2024 O&G Curriculum
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Improving workplace behaviours
- Regional Workplace Behaviour Champions
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Workplace Behaviour Toolkit
- Module 1: I feel that I have been bullied or undermined
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Module 4: I am responsible for a department that has a problem with bullying or undermining
- 4.1 What might poor workplace behaviour in my department look like?
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- 4.4 What can I do to address a problem with poor workplace behaviour in my department?
- 4.5 How will I know if behaviours in my department improve and what can I do if they do not?
- Module 5: My deanery has a problem with bullying or undermining (for HoS/TPDs)
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Module 7: I want to learn more about workplace behaviour
- 7.1 What is workplace culture and what are poor workplace behaviours?
- 7.2 How do you recognise bullying and undermining?
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- 7.5 What is the law regarding undermining and bullying?
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Module 8: Addressing poor workplace behaviours and 'calling it out'
- 8.1 What are the important principles to consider when addressing negative behaviours?
- 8.2 What are the principles of 'calling it out with compassion'? (Second messenger system)
- 8.3 What do the second messenger conversations look like in practice?
- 8.4 How do I speak to a person who I feel has behaved poorly towards me?
- 8.5 How do I speak to a person who I feel I have witnessed behaving poorly?
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Scientific Impact Papers
- Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine for Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain (Scientific Impact Paper No. 30)
- Air Travel and Pregnancy (Scientific Impact Paper No. 1)
- Alternatives to HRT for the Management of Symptoms of the Menopause (Scientific Impact Paper No. 6)
- Antenatal and Postnatal Analgesia (Scientific Impact Paper No. 59)
- Antithrombotics in the Prevention of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, The Use of (Scientific Impact Paper No. 26)
- Bariatric Surgery in the Management of Female Fertility, The Role of (Scientific Impact Paper No. 17)
- Botulinum Toxin for an Overactive Bladder (Scientific Impact Paper No. 42)
- Changing Role of the Gynaecologist in the Management of Women with Cancer (Scientific Impact Paper No. 10)
- Chemical Exposures During Pregnancy: Dealing with Potential, but Unproven, Risks to Child Health (Scientific Impact Paper No. 37)
- Clamping of the Umbilical Cord and Placental Transfusion (Scientific Impact Paper No. 14)
- Developing New Pharmaceutical Treatments for Obstetric Conditions (Scientific Impact Paper No. 50)
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Gestational Diabetes (Scientific Impact Paper No. 23)
- Diagnostic Biomarkers for Predicting Adverse Early Pregnancy Outcomes (Scientific Impact Paper No. 58)
- Elective Egg Freezing for Non-Medical Reasons (Scientific Impact Paper No. 63)
- Enhanced Recovery in Gynaecology (Scientific Impact Paper No. 36)
- Epigenetics and Reproductive Medicine (Scientific Impact Paper No. 57)
- Evaluating misoprostol and mechanical methods for induction of labour (Scientific Impact Paper No. 68)
- Evaluating New Screening Methodologies (Scientific Impact Paper No. 20)
- Evidence Can Influence Clinical Practice, How (Scientific Impact Paper No. 28)
- Evidence to Support the Clinical Utility of Prenatal Exome Sequencing in the Evaluation of the Fetus with Congenital Anomalies (Scientific Impact Paper No. 64)
- Fertility-sparing Treatments in Gynaecological Cancers (Scientific Impact Paper No. 35)
- Fetal Scalp Lactate as an Alternative to Scalp pH, Is it Time for UK Obstetricians to Accept (Scientific Impact Paper No. 47)
- Subclinical hypothyroidism and antithyroid autoantibodies in women with subfertility or recurrent pregnancy loss (Scientific Impact Paper No. 70)
- Immunological Testing and Interventions for Reproductive Failure (Scientific Impact Paper No. 5)
- Induction of Labour at Term in Older Mothers (Scientific Impact Paper No. 34)
- Intrauterine Infection and Perinatal Brain Injury (Scientific Impact Paper No. 3)
- Laser treatment for genitourinary syndrome of menopause (Scientific Impact Paper No. 72)
- Life Course Approach to Women's Health Care, Why Should we Consider a (Scientific Impact Paper No. 27)
- Local Endometrial Trauma (Endometrial Scratch): A Treatment Strategy to Improve Implantation Rates (Scientific Impact Paper No. 54)
- Magnesium Sulphate to Prevent Cerebral Palsy following Preterm Birth (Scientific Impact Paper No. 29)
- Management of Ascites in Ovarian Cancer Patients (Scientific Impact Paper No. 45)
- Management of Female Malignant Ovarian Germ Cell Tumours (Scientific Impact Paper No.52)
- Management of Women with a Genetic Predisposition to Gynaecological Cancers (Scientific Impact Paper No. 48)
- Mesh in Gynaecological Surgery, The Use of (Scientific Impact Paper No. 19)
- Metformin Therapy for the Management of Infertility in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (Scientific Impact Paper No. 13)
- Multiple Pregnancy Following Assisted Reproduction (Scientific Impact Paper No. 22)
- Non-invasive Prenatal Testing for Chromosomal Abnormality using Maternal Plasma DNA (Scientific Impact Paper No. 15)
- Nutrition in Pregnancy (Scientific Impact Paper No. 18)
- Optimum Surgery in Advanced-stage Ovarian Cancer (Scientific Impact Paper No. 25)
- Patient-reported Outcome Measures in Gynaecology (Scientific Impact Paper No. 31)
- Periconceptional Folic Acid and Food Fortification in the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects (Scientific Impact Paper No. 4)
- Perinatal Management of Pregnant Women at the Threshold of Infant Viability – the Obstetric Perspective (Scientific Impact Paper No. 41)
- Perinatal Risks Associated with IVF (Scientific Impact Paper No. 8)
- Prenatal Management of Pregnancies at Risk of Fetal Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) (Scientific Impact Paper No. 61)
- Preterm Labour, Antibiotics and Cerebral Palsy (Scientific Impact Paper No. 33)
- Progress in Cervical Screening in the UK (Scientific Impact Paper No. 7
- Reproductive Ageing (Scientific Impact Paper No. 24)
- Reproductive Implications and Management of Congenital Uterine Anomalies (2024 Second Edition) (Scientific Impact Paper No. 62)
- Reproductive Outcomes after Local Treatment for Preinvasive Cervical Disease (Scientific Impact Paper No.21)
- Reproductive Trends and Assisted Reproduction Technologies (Scientific Impact Paper No. 11)
- Risk-Reducing Salpingo-Oophorectomy and the Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy Below the Age of Natural Menopause (Scientific Impact Paper No. 66)
- Robotic Surgery in Gynaecology (Scientific Impact Paper No. 71)
- Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Endometrial Cancer (Scientific Impact Paper No.51)
- Sex Steroid Treatment for Pubertal Induction and Replacement in the Adolescent Girl (Scientific Impact Paper No. 40)
- Stem Cell Therapies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Scientific Impact Paper No. 38)
- Targeted Therapies for the Management of Ovarian Cancer (Scientific Impact Paper No. 12)
- The Combined Use of Ultrasound and Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging for a Comprehensive Fetal Neurological Assessment in Fetal Congenital Cardiac Defects (Scientific Impact Paper No. 60)
- The Distal Fallopian Tube as the Origin of Non-uterine Pelvic High-grade Serous Carcinomas (Scientific Impact Paper No. 44)
- The Effect of Surgery for Endometriomas on Fertility (Scientific Impact Paper No. 55)
- The Role of Natural Killer Cells in Human Fertility (Scientific Impact Paper No. 53)
- The Use of Adhesion Prevention Agents in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Scientific Impact Paper No. 39)
- Therapies Targeting the Nervous System for Chronic Pelvic Pain Relief (Scientific Impact Paper No. 46)
- Ultrasound from Conception to 10+0 Weeks of Gestation (Scientific Impact Paper No. 49)
- Umbilical Cord Blood Banking (Scientific Impact Paper No. 2)
- Vaccination Against Cervical Cancer (Scientific Impact Paper No. 9)
- Vitamin D in Pregnancy (Scientific Impact Paper 43)
- Vitamin Supplementation in Pregnancy (Scientific Impact Paper No. 16)
- Understanding the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Maternal Mortality (Scientific Impact Paper No. 67)
- Uterine Transplantation (Scientific Impact Paper No. 65)
- The Use of Biomarkers to Stratify Surgical Care in Women with Ovarian Cancer (Scientific Impact Paper No. 69)
- Endometrial Cancer in Obese Women (Scientific Impact Paper No. 32)
- Management of Impacted Fetal Head at Caesarean Birth (Scientific Impact Paper No. 73) (1)
- The use of expanded carrier screening in reproductive medicine
- Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Update on Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (Scientific Impact Paper No. 56)
- The Use of Novel Therapies in the Management of Haemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN) (Scientific Impact Paper No. 75)
- Care of Women with Preterm Prelabour Rupture of the Membranes Prior to 24+0 Weeks of Gestation (Scientific Impact Paper No. 76)
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Consent Advice
- Abdominal Hysterectomy for Benign Conditions (Consent Advice No. 4)
- Amniocentesis (Consent Advice No. 6)
- Caesarean Section (Consent Advice No. 7)
- Caesarean Section for Placenta Praevia (Consent Advice No. 12)
- Diagnostic Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia (Consent Advice No. 1)
- Diagnostic Laparoscopy (Consent Advice No. 2)
- Laparoscopic Management of Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy (Consent Advice No. 8)
- Morcellation for Abdominal or Laparoscopic Myomectomy or Hysterectomy (Consent Advice No. 13)
- Operative Vaginal Delivery (Consent Advice No. 11)
- Repair of Third- and Fourth-degree Perineal Tears Following Childbirth (Consent Advice No. 9)
- Vaginal Surgery for Prolapse (Consent Advice No. 5)
- Female Sterilisation (Consent Advice No. 3)
- Surgical Management of Miscarriage and Removal of Persistent Placental or Fetal Remains (Consent Advice No. 10 Joint with AEPU)
- Planned Caesarean Birth (Consent Advice No. 14)
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Clinical Governance Advice
- Development of RCOG Green-top Guidelines: Policies and Processes (Clinical Governance Advice No. 1a)
- Obtaining Valid Consent (Clinical Governance Advice No. 6)
- Obtaining Valid Consent to Participate in Perinatal Research Where Consent is Time Critical (Clinical Governance Advice No. 6a)
- Presenting Information on Risk (Clinical Governance Advice No. 7)
- Understanding Audit (Clinical Governance Advice No. 5)
- Development of RCOG Green-top Guidelines: Consensus Methods for Adaptation of RCOG Green-top Guidelines (Clinical Governance Advice No. 1d)
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- Gynaecology: Emergency Services Standards of Practice and Service Organisation (Good Practice No. 9)
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- Labour Ward Solutions (Good Practice No. 10)
- Management of Women with Mental Health Issues during Pregnancy and the Postnatal Period (Good Practice No.14)
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- RCOG President's blog – March 2023
- RCOG statement on the publication of the Three Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services in England
- Independent Maternity Working Group gives cautious welcome to three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services
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- Reforming Abortion Law Position Statement
- New toolkit released to tackle stigma experienced by abortion care providers (1)
- New report indicates that almost half of all Black mothers do not feel educated on the fetal impact of air pollution exposure during pregnancy
- Revolutionary technique using 3D printing and sound waves to measure intrauterine pressure (2)
- Supporting women through recurrent miscarriage: breaking the burden of silence
- Dr Eddie Morris, former RCOG President, recognised in King’s Birthday Honours list
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- The Role of the Women's Network and Patient and Public Involvement in Obstetric and Gynaecology Services
- NHS Race and Health Observatory releases review of neonatal assessments which focus on skin colour
- RCM and RCOG statement in support of Birth Companions Birth Charter for women with involvement from children’s social care
- RCOG release statement following Government’s full response to the review of maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust
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- RCOG President's blog – July 2023
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- RCOG response to latest MBRRACE-UK perinatal mortality report
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- World Contraception Day 2023: Access to quality contraception care is essential for gynaecological health
- RCOG President's blog – September 2023
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- Understanding and addressing the influence of colonialism on Obstetrics and Gynaecology specialty training in the UK
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- The Royal Foundation Business Taskforce for Early Childhood’s Case for Change report - Prioritising early childhood for a happier, healthier society
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- RCOG President’s blog: December 2024
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- New journal paper explores women’s experiences of OASI Care Bundle during pregnancy and birth
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- President's blog: January 2025
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- President’s blog: March 2025
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- ABC programme pilot concludes successfully
- Abortion reform is urgently needed and now is the time for change
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- Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth programme national roll out planned from September following successful achievement of pilot programme
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