Training for General Practice: Result of Survey into General-practitioner Trainee Scheme

Abstract

Training for general practice in England and Wales is, generally speaking, inadequate. Some recent suggestions for improving this were made by the B.M.A. (1963), largely concerned with the present trainee year, and by the Council of the College of General Practitioners (1965). The latter proposes a three- year postgraduate training period in suitable hospital appointments and a remodelled trainee period in general practice lasting two years.