INTRODUCTION To meet increasing health demands, increasing the proportion of local graduates entering general practice is imperative. METHODS Students entering or exiting The University of Auckland's medical programme from 2006 to 2008 were invited to complete a tracking project survey. Levels of interest in general practice were determined along with characteristics associated with a greater...

A substantial international network of general practice researchers has grown up over the past 30 years, and the literature of the discipline is now extensive and diverse. Nevertheless, there is considerable ambivalence within the profession about what research can offer, where its weight should be being put and how best the opportunities its insights create can be taken advantage of. The somet...

This paper documents the proposals put forward by George Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse, founders of the Peckham Health Centre and members of the Political and Economic Planning (PEP) Health Group, to enhance the role and status of the general practitioner (GP). Their ideas are significant in terms of their understanding of the threat that specialism posed to general practice and of the prob...

introduction: the need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. this paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. methods: in august of 2012, the university of washington department of family medicine established a self-funded, non-acgme (accreditation counci...

EDITOR Dr. Rosen graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, then trained in internal medicine at the University of Alabama, and in dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine. He currently serves as Professor of Dermatology at Baylor and Chief of Dermatology at the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is active in the American Academy of Dermatology, having served on the Boa...