General Practice: A Developing Academic Discipline

Does academic general practice have a future?

rom modest beginnings little more than 30 years ago, Australian academic general practice has grown and prospered — particularly with the recent introduction of rural clinical departments and additional medical schools. General practice sits naturally at the “front line” for the prevention and management of a multitude of health problems — management that increasingly relies on the best informa...

Developing Danish general practice

nurses and other staff. Their main source of income is reimbursement. GPs are paid by a mixture of per capita payment and fees for services. Privately paid fees from patients or other services outside the National Health Service account for only a modest turnover [ 6 ] . GP offi ces are contracted to be open on all weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with the fi rst hour reserved for telephon...

The development of general practice as an academic discipline in Germany - an analysis of research output between 2000 and 2010

BACKGROUND Governmental funding support is seen as a prerequisite for the growth of research in general practice. Several funding programs in the amount of € 13.2 Mio were introduced in Germany from 2002 to February 2012. We aim to provide an overview of publications reporting original data and systematic reviews from German academic family medicine published between 2000 and 2010. METHODS Pu...

Academic general practice: a viewpoint on achievements and challenges.

Law as an Academic Discipline

Although the vast majority of law school graduates are practising lawyers (or judges), the place of law schools at universities is never questioned. Law schools are clearly professional schools charged with the task of conveying the knowledge, the skills and also the ethical commitments germane to the legal vocation. But is law really an academic discipline? At first glance, the answer is obvio...