McDonald, P;
Jackson, B;
Alberti, H;
Rosenthal, J;
(2016)
How can medical schools encourage students to choose general practice as a career?
British Journal of General Practice
, 66
(647)
pp. 292-293.
10.3399/bjgp16X685297.
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Abstract
The NHS faces a continuing rise in volume and complexity of population health needs, with care moving increasingly from hospital to community. National reviews of medical training and workforce requirements report a critical need for an increase in the NHS GP workforce, and NHS England has now responded with a welcome promise of investment in primary care.1 This may provide funding for GPs, but where will these GPs come from? Medical schools and the Royal College of General Practitioners are working to promote general practice as a career, but the current uptake of GP training is disappointing, with only 17.4% of F2 doctors appointed to GP training in the UK in 2015.2 Health Education England’s GP training recruitment targets for 2016 are likely to be missed. Many questions must be asked. What explains the wide variations across medical schools in graduates’ choice of general practice as a career (range 7.3–30.0%)?2 Is there a cultural bias against primary care in medical schools? How important is the quantity and quality of undergraduate general practice exposure? Are we taking the wrong approach to selection processes in order to meet the needs of contemporary society?
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How can medical schools encourage students to choose general practice as a career? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3399/bjgp16X685297 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp16X685297 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Primary Care and Population Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1508898 |
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