Medical leadership and general practice: seductive or dictatorial?

General Medical Practice

it here. This doctor is one of four in partnership, with his own panel of 2,000 patients and about the same number of private patients. He has a surgery built for the purpose in the garden of his house, with a waiting room to seat 30 and a consulting room and a dispensary. His wife, a trained nurse, acts as nurse receptionist, does dressings, assists in dispensing, keeps the appointment book, g...

[Trends among medical students towards general practice or specialization].

BACKGROUND A 60/40 ratio has been estimated as a country's ideal proportion between general practitioners and specialists. In Chile this proportion was 36/ 64 in 2004, exactly the opposite of the ideal. Trends towards specialization or general practice among medical students have not been thoughtfully studied. AIM To assess trends among medical students towards becoming general practitioners ...

Medical audit in general practice.

Increasing interest is being shown in the standards of medical care in general practice. The method of measuring these standards, known as medical audit, is discussed in relation to general practice in Great Britain.

Depression and suicide in general medical practice.

Attitude of medical students towards general practice and general practitioners.

BACKGROUND The stimuli for this work came from the need to identify and understand the origin of students' attitudes towards general practice in the context of undergraduate curriculum reform and concerns about recruitment. AIM To evaluate attitudes of medical students towards general practice as a specialty and general practitioners (GPs) as doctors and explore factors influencing students' ...