Volume 1

LEADING ARTICLES

Postgraduate Education for General Practice
Declan Dwyer

Practice-based continuing medical education
Paul Sackin

Continuing medical education - is there a crisis?
Helen Mulholland

Whatever happened to education?
Chris Savile

Towards effective consulting in the 1990’s
Peter Havelock

ORIGINAL PAPERS

Continuing medical education - learned or taught?
Michael Varnam
Responsibility for continuing education is the hallmark of the profesional. Can general practitioners be motivated to prove their professionalism?

Dynamics in the consultation
Peter Jenkins, Mary Davis and John Weston
Consultation skills are often neglectd in traditional education. The small group supplemented by role play, video and actors may be a remedy.

Can reading make me a better doctor?
John Salinsky
Why not add ficton to the prescribed reading list?

Group skills for course organizers
Paul Sackin
The author finds that it is possible to acquire leadership skills in the course of working as an ordinary group member. However another group leader suggests this experience was inappropriate.

Icarus and Daedalus
Myths, methods and motivation in vocational training: Part I the Icarus Factor Roger Neighbour
The ACO Fellow provides a classical thesis on what makes high flyers fly higher.

Carrot or stick?
Tim Billington
Assessing the right balance between encouagement and criticism is not always easy.

Interaction analysis as a teaching tool
Peter Campion
What doctors really mean when they sat ‘we’.

Icarus and Daedalus
Myths, methods and motivation in vocational training: Paper II - The Inner Apprentice Roger Neighbour
In the second of his series of articles the author looks inside the Inner Apprentice to see what makes him learn.

Video consultation analysis - a review of three years of weekly meetings
Julian Turner and Alun Edwards
A structured method of examining video consultations in a teaching practice.

Learner-based self-assessment of training for general practice
John Cummins
Self-assessment is the key to self-knowledge.

Read all about it
Oliver Samuel
The author travels from Ancient Greece to Jerusalem in search of the best way to plan medical education.

A cautionary tale
Falling in love with a trainee. It doesn’t happen does it?

Measuring consultation process
Richard Hays
Objective analysis of problem consultations using consultation mapping.

The role of androgogy in continuing medical education
Moris Watt
Teaching methods used in the education of children are not necessarily the most appropriate for GPs. What are the prospects for a more progressive approach?

Working together - a description of residential multiprofessional workshops
Bob Jones
Profoundly differing philosophies of life and work may be hindering team-work in general practice.

What should trainees learn?
Oliver Samuel
Defining behavioural objectives is outmoded. The core curriculum should develop thinking and feeling.

Icarus and Daedalus
Myths, methods and motivation in vocational training: Paper III - Daedalus diversified
Roger Neighbour
Not everything that counts can be counted.

PRACTICAL IDEAS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

The mutually agreed report system (MARS)
Chris Tibbott, Paul Smith and Geoff Roberts
A description of a method of assessment in which trainees play and equal part with their trainers.

Vocational training in a developing country: Nigeria
Tom Garrett
Despite geographical and cultural differences the general practitioner trainee in Nigeria has much in common with those in the UK.

The work of a course organizer
Stuart Evans
A detailed study of how course organizers spent their working time in the Trent Region

Continuing medical education and pharmaceutical sponsorship
Peter Burrows
In the new era of self-financing education, the pharmaceutical companies are all too eager to ‘help’. What is acceptable and what is not?

Teaching problem-solving on problem patients
Justin Allen
A system for helping trainees cope with difficult consultations.

Group project work by general practice trainees
Peter Edwards, Brian Wallace & Helen Houston
Projecto work as part of a VTS half day release programme. Five lessons from five projects.

Peer audit by inter-practice visit
Winston Forman
Serious training deficiencies are unearthed in a non-threatening and constructive way.

NEWS AND VIEWS

ASSOCIATION OF COURSE ORGANIZERS

REFLECTIONS OF A REGIONAL ADVISER

HASLAM ON TRAINING

SISYPHUS

BOOK REVIEWS

LETTERS

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