Postgraduate education for general practitioners

Motivation of general practitioners attending postgraduate education.

BACKGROUND The 1990 Contract encouraged general practitioners to participate in continuing medical education by providing a financial incentive. AIM The study was designed: to determine the motivation of general practitioners attending education events; and to compare motivation and reasons for attendance pre- and post-Contract at commercial and non-commercial meetings, and at the different e...

Postgraduate education for Chinese medicine practitioners: a Hong Kong perspective

BACKGROUND Despite Hong Kong government's official commitment to the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) over the last ten years, there appears to have been limited progress in public sector initiated career development and postgraduate training (PGT) for public university trained TCM practitioners. Instead, the private TCM sector is expected to play a major role in nurturing the ...

Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914

In 1899 the British Medical Journal enthusiastically announced that a new postgraduate teaching college was to open in London. The aim of the Medical Graduates' College and Polyclinic (MGC) was to provide continuing education to general practitioners. It drew upon emerging specialisms and in so doing built upon the generalist training received at an undergraduate level. Courses were intended to...

Characteristics of general practitioners who did not claim the first postgraduate education allowance.

How can a postgraduate professional education and development course benefit general practitioners?: a qualitative study

PURPOSE The rationale for 'professional education and development' (PED) courses is to support general practitioners, enabling them to access a range of theoretical and practical skills within a supportive schema. It aims to identify whether and how a regional PED course has had a beneficial impact upon participants. METHODS The study comprised a qualitative investigation of participants' ass...