Medical schools and general practice

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...

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.

How can medical schools encourage students to choose general practice as a career?

The NHS faces a continuing rise in volume and complexity of population health needs, with care moving increasingly from hospital to community. National reviews of medical training and workforce requirements report a critical need for an increase in the NHS GP workforce, and NHS England has now responded with a welcome promise of investment in primary care.1 This may provide funding for GPs, but...

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' ...