The expert medical generalist

David Oliver: Celebrating the expert generalist.

In 2011 the Royal College of General Practitioners led a commission onmedical generalists.Definitions vary, but I like the response from the Medical Schools Council: “doctors prepared to deal with any problem presenting to them, unrestricted by particular body systems and including problems with psychological or social causes as well as physical ones.” The Royal College of Physicians has emphas...

The making of a medical generalist.

Supporting expert generalist practice: the SAGE consultation model.

Dismantling Lord Moran's ladder: the primary care expert generalist.

1 It is over 50 years since Lord Moran suggested that GPs were doctors who have fallen off the specialist ladder. 2 Then, two-thirds of early career GPs would have preferred to have been specialists. 2 Today Lord Moran's ladder lives on. General practice is still not a first career choice for many graduates, certainly not enough to sustain the workforce we need. 3 Our conversations with early c...

Medical Expert Testimony *

That sort of capacity which involves not the organic powers, moral and mental, requisite for all testimony, nor yet the emotional power of unbiased observation and statement, but the skill to acquire accurate conceptions which may be termed experiential capacity. The person possessing it is commonly called an expert. This capacity may be obtained by special training or experience, or by both. I...