Online Diploma
Family Medicine Diploma
Decision-focused general practice for final-year trainees, early-career GPs and doctors moving into primary care.
25 sessions across 5 modules, weekly over 25 weeks.
Overview
What the diploma covers.
A structured, decision-focused programme across general practice and family medicine, anchored to current NICE guidance with US differences called out where they change practice. It opens with the consultation and clinical uncertainty, then covers long-term conditions, common presentations, every life stage, mental health, urgent care and end-of-life care. Procedures are covered as decisions and referrals, not technique.
Modules
- 01Thinking like a GP (5 sessions)
The GP consultation; the undifferentiated presentation; suspected cancer in primary care; multimorbidity, polypharmacy and frailty; prevention, screening and risk communication.
- 02Long-term conditions (5 sessions)
Hypertension and cardiovascular risk; type 2 diabetes and obesity; asthma and COPD; AF, heart failure and CKD in primary care; the abnormal result.
- 03Common presentations (5 sessions)
MSK; dermatology; gastroenterology; neurology; acute infections and antimicrobial stewardship.
- 04Life stages (5 sessions)
Children and young people; women's health; pregnancy and the postnatal period; men's health and urology; older adults.
- 05Mental health, urgent care and end of life (5 sessions)
Depression and anxiety; serious mental illness, neurodiversity and substance misuse; same-day and urgent care; palliative and end-of-life care; patient safety and medicolegal risk in general practice.
Learning outcomes
- Run a structured, time-limited consultation that shares decisions with the patient.
- Manage uncertainty safely, using time, red flags and specific safety-netting.
- Make guideline-concordant decisions across the common long-term conditions.
- Recognise the presentations that must not be missed, from cancer and sepsis to the febrile child.
- Care for patients at every life stage, from children and pregnancy to frailty and the end of life.
- Reduce diagnostic and medicolegal risk in everyday practice.
After you enrol
What to expect
The cohort begins Tue 2 Mar 2027. Here is the delegate journey from enrolment through to your certificate.
- 01Secure checkoutAt checkout
You complete your enrolment through a secure Stripe checkout.
- 02Welcome emailImmediate
A PMI welcome email confirms your place straight away. This is the only step that happens automatically; everything that follows is prepared for you ahead of and during the cohort.
- 03Course Portal accessAhead of the cohort
Ahead of the cohort you receive your Course Portal login and the full session schedule.
- 04Weekly live sessionsDuring the cohort
Weekly live sessions taught by practising GPs and family physicians on Tuesdays, each recorded for on-demand access.
- 05Weekly MCQsDuring the cohort
Weekly self-marked MCQs that build toward the assessment.
- 06Final written paperEnd of the cohort
A final written paper at the end of the cohort.
- 07Certificate of CompletionOn passing
A Certificate of Completion on passing.
Faculty
Faculty in formation.
The full faculty list will be published ahead of the launch cohort. Register interest to be notified.
Course Director: TBC.
FAQs
Common questions.
- Final-year GP and family medicine trainees, GPs and family physicians in their first years of independent practice, and hospital doctors moving into primary care, anywhere in the world.
- Entirely online, through 25 weekly live sessions on Tuesdays at 18:00 UK time. Every session is recorded, and the diploma is assessed through weekly MCQs and a final written paper.
- Every session is recorded and available on demand within the delegate portal. You can catch up at any point during the cohort.
- Plan for roughly two to three hours per week. That covers the live session, the weekly formative MCQ, and light preparation or recap.
- No. It is decision-focused clinical teaching, not preparation for MRCGP, board or licensing exams.
- No. Minor surgery, joint injections and point-of-care ultrasound are covered as decisions and referrals, not technique.