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- Page navigation anchor for Time to revive the GP-focused clinical examinationTime to revive the GP-focused clinical examinationWe read with interest Block and Easton’s plea that we should claim the focused examination as a specialist GP skill that we can be proud of.1GP teachers who provide clinical placements for Keele’s undergraduate medical students report informally that students sometimes question their practice of performing focused, rather than full systematic ‘PACES- style’ examinations, and as a consequence, they lack of confidence in teaching examination skills. Conversely, students often question the need to examine patients when so much imaging is available, and is requested, in hospitals.We have begun to try to address these problems. We have developed a workshop entitled ‘Learning and teaching the skills of Evidence Based Physical Examination (EBPE)’ for clinical teachers. This provides participants the opportunity to consider the evidence for the use of focused examinations in their day to day work, as well as the practical aspects of teaching evidence based physical examination.2 We have delivered this locally to our GP teachers and to a multidisciplinary audience at the 7th International Clinical Skills Conference in Prato, 2017. Informal feedback has suggested that the workshop has increased participants’ confidence in their examinations in their clinical practice, and in their teaching.Alongside this, Keele’s year...Show MoreCompeting Interests: None declared.