Keeping Informed by Tape and Disk

Abstract

MEDICAL URNL583 young doctors are adequately trained for general practice, and established practitioners can obtain all the continuing education they require. It has not been possible in this article to do more than mention briefly some of the main problems and offer a few suggestions to solve them. The views expressed are my own, but I am grateful for the help and encouragement of many nmxembers of the College of General Practitioners throughout the country.

Stimulation of New Disciplines in General Practice by Tape-recorded Talks

“…In 1958 we wrote about the " academic isolation" of the general practitioner and its possible causes and cure (Graves and Graves, 1958). We felt that these general practitioners had lost their way among so many advances and that they had lost the capacity to keep up to date by means of reading alone; and we thought that the use of sound and of audio-visual methods, and group discussion of problems, would help them to find the way back.…”

“…An important new development is the "Journal Club" (Graves and Graves, 1960). Members of these clubs, as well as discussing recordings, each make *a study of a particular journal, from which they prepare abstracts to read and discuss with one another at their monthly meetings.…”