Professional Education for General Practice

'Practice professional development plans': general practitioners' perspectives on proposed changes in general practice education.

BACKGROUND The Chief Medical Officer has presented a report proposing a change in general practitioners' education towards a 'Practice Professional Development Plan', which, in principle, is based around formal needs assessment, practice-based learning in areas identified by those involved, and with the potential for multi-professional learning. This aims to replace the present system of a fina...

Rheumatology education for general practice.

from higher education to professional practice

Interrelationship between Professional and Education Practice

An academic department of education serving the entire university and a strategic choice by the Faculty of Medicine to support educational innovation through education research are the historical cornerstones of the education research program of the University of Maastricht. Over the years, the department’s initial exclusive research focus on the evaluation of problem-based learning has widened...

Clinical knowledge and education for general practice.

This project was concerned with the clinical knowledge reported by general practitioners in relation to the diagnosis and management of seven common clinical conditions: acute otitis media, jaundice, iron-deficiency anaemia, transient cerebral vascular insufficiency, infectious mononucleosis, pulmonary infarction, and carcinoma of the prostate. Postal questionnaires were sent to three groups of...