RCGP Curriculum Changes
What’s actually new and relevant to the SCA exam in the 2025 Clinical Topic Guides
The 2025 refresh adds two completely new stand-alone specialities, replaces one combined guide with a pair of separate ones, and modernises the wording of several long-standing headings. Here’s the detail in prose form so you can lift it straight onto your own site:
1 — Entirely new clinical guides
Learning disability now has its own clinical topic guide. Previously, issues around intellectual disability were bundled inside the broader neurodevelopmental guide; the 2025 curriculum acknowledges it as a distinct area of GP expertise.
Maternity and reproductive health make their debut on the clinical list (it used to sit in the Life-Stages section, not among the speciality guides).
2 — A split for clarity
The old guide entitled “Neurodevelopmental disorders, intellectual & social disability” has been divided in two:
Neurodevelopmental conditions & neurodiversity—a renamed, more inclusive successor focused on autism, ADHD, etc.
Learning disability—see above.
That separation allows each area to be treated in more depth than the single 2023 guide did.
3 — Renamed (but essentially unchanged) specialities
To tighten style and reflect contemporary terminology, several headings have been reworded:
Allergy and Immunology → Allergy & clinical immunology
Infectious Disease and Travel Health → Infectious diseases & travel health
Kidney and Urology → Renal & urology
Gynaecology and Breast → Gynaecology & breast health
4 — Numbers at a glance
Twenty-two clinical guides are listed for 2025, up from twenty in the 2023 edition (the increase comes from adding Learning Disability and moving Maternity & Reproductive Health into the clinical set).
No previous topics have been dropped; all existing specialities remain, just with fresher titles where needed.
How does this affect our website?
We have changed the clinical topics filter on our cases to reflect the new curriculum. We have also remapped the cases to the new curriculum, so you will see some cases move around from old clinical topics into new ones.
