Why doesn’t anyone want to be a GP: and what can we do about it?

摘要

For many of us, experience of a specialty during training can be the most powerful ‘advertisement’ there is for any prospective career. Few junior doctors would commit to a lifetime spent working in a specialty without some experience. It is striking, then, how little time we spend in general practice: for us, perhaps 8 weeks over an entire degree. Is it any surprise that hospital medicine appears ‘the norm’?