Training for general practice.

  • Great Britain. Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice.
Date:
1982
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Training for general practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Events in general practice concerning education have been moving so rapidly in the last few years that almost before a book has been published on the subject, it has to be updated. Therefore, it is wise to assume that any publication on matters relating to vocational training for general practice represents a snapshot of a moving scenario. Having said that, it is often easier and more helpful to examine a single frame in depth and at one’s leisure. Vocational training is more than knowing the regulations, of which there are plenty. It is about how our profession perceives the role of the general practitioner in society and how these perceptions are trans- lated into reality through a broad, flexible and dynamic system of training and education, professionally determined but largely resourced by the State. The Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice is the profession’s agent in this task. The Committee has been encouraged to publish a booklet on vocational training for general practice so that trainees (and others) would have an authoritative document to which to refer. The Committee in charging Jack Norell, the former Executive Officer, with the task of collating the information and writing the text, is indebted to him for the end result and for his work over the years on behalf of the Committee. I should additionally like to thank the Joint Honorary Secretaries, Drs. Havard and Irvine, and the secretariat at Princes Gate for the considerable effort they have made to ensure the smooth operation of the Joint Committee from its first meeting in February 1976 which enabled a distant idea to become a present reality. S.E. Josse Past Chairman of the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice. May 1982