A procedure for training for general practice

Comparison of attitudes of trained trainers, untrained trainers, and trainees to teaching in general practice

“…In October 1972 a working party of the Royal College of General Practitioners published The Future General Practitioner–Learning and Teaching , which draws together much of the current literature and suggests guidelines for future development. But there has not been a great deal of work done on the design and evaluation of courses for trainers who do most of the actual teaching in general practice (but see Byrne, Freeman, and M'Comisky, 1970; Byrne, 1971; Morrison and Cameron‐Jones, 1972). In fact there are very few courses at present in Britain so that when the Royal College of General Practitioners in conjunction with the British Postgraduate Medical Federation began their first course in November 1970 in which traditional methods of teaching were not considered the most appropriate, it was suggested that a research project should be set up.…”