Letter: Training for general practice.

Training for General Practice.

The practice is a two-man training practice with a list of approximately 4,000, mainly in social classes III, IV and V. Over the past five years, 10 trainees have been attached to the practice, each for a period of six months. Three of the trainees have been women. Two hundred and fifty-eight patients who visited the surgery in a two-week period were asked by the receptionist to complete a ques...

Training for general practice.

Vocational Training for General Practice

In October 1968, this Journal published a paper entitled 'Vocational Training for General Practice' which was mainly concerned with the need for such training at that time, and the future developments necessary to make achievement a possibility. In assessing the then current position, it was suggested that in its attempt to establish itself as a true academic discipline, General Practice had to...

Changes in Vocational Training for General Practice

The introduction of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the regulatory framework being implemented by the new Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) will bring about major changes for all doctors in training, not least in general practice (GP). As there has been longstanding criticism of elements of the GP training programme, which has been set in regulation for the past 25...

Training for general practice: meeting the challenge.

In 1911 Sir William Osler in a letter to Ira Remsen, President of the Johns Hopkins University, said of the hospital specialist that 'he was cabined, cribbed, confined within the four walls of a hospital practising the fugitive and cloistered virtues of a clinical monk. How shall he, forsooth, train men for a race the dust and heat of which he knows nothing and this is a possibility! cares less...