The purpose of this syllabus is to: 
- Allow candidates to prepare for the exam by reference to what may be included in the examination questions
- Provide information for trainers, exam revision course designers etc to plan educational material/teaching resources for the examination
- Enable blueprinting of examination questions to the curriculum ensuring the validity of the examination
- Aid examinations statistical processes such as data on sampling of the curriculum.
The coding takes the following form, for example:  1_GA_Q_1
| Code | Key | 
| 1 | Stage of training: 1 or 2 | 
| GA | Domain: Standard abbreviation POM, GA etc | 
| Q | Key capability (KC): Letter of KC from curriculum | 
| 1 | Item: Number |