The training capacity of general practice revisited: advanced training practices

The training capacity of general practice revisited: advanced training practices.

recognise that longer consultations are needed in general practice. This will undoubtedly need reorganisation within practices, butwe have been able to offer 15minute appointments as standard for 8 years inourpracticewithhugebenefits for ourselves, and we are confident, for patients’ too.2 There is now substantial continued evidence that longer consultations can improve quality of care.3 With e...

The training capacity of general practice.

General practice research - training and capacity building.

The Lancet in 1999 suggested that 'neglect of research has made primary care one of the most intellectually underdeveloped disciplines in medicine' and later labelled general practice research 'a lost cause'. According to the Medical Journal of Australia, this underdevelopment 'stems from a lack of research culture, a heavy service commitment and the late arrival of academic GPs'.

Innovation in general practice: is the gap between training and non-training practices getting wider?

BACKGROUND Training practices are more developed than non-training practices in terms of a wide range of educational and clinical activities, facilities and staff. If training practices are also adopting new innovations at a faster rate than non-training practices the gap between them will increase. AIM The aim of this study was to determine whether, between 1982 and 1990, training practices ...

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...