Global health: time for full integration into GP education

摘要

Postgraduate medical training no longer sufficiently prepares UK doctors for the challenges of the 21st century. In 2010, an Independent Commission on the Education of Health Professionals, published in The Lancet, described a ‘mismatch between present professional competencies and the requirements of an increasingly interdependent world’.1 Globalisation, fuelled by a technological revolution and the subsequent mushrooming of social connectivity, affects all sectors of society and hence also each interaction in our consulting room. The recent RCGP conference on Global General Practice is a reflection of the increasingly high profile of global health issues. However, these issues fail to feature adequately in the current postgraduate training curricula of UK doctors.2