Situating general practice training in the general practice context

Situating general practice training in the general practice context.

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...

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...