Volume 9 Number 1 contents

LEADING ARTICLES

Self-directed learning in general practice
Peter Burrows

ARTICLES

The learning needs and qualifications of GP tutors
Iain Sidford
GP tutors have a varied role. Few of them have an educational qualification and most recognize the need for further training.

A study of general practice CME tutors
Jamie Bahrami and Barbara Pearce
GP tutors are working hard but they need a lot more support if they are to try and identify the learning needs of GPs in their area.

Education, audit and active learning: making the links?
Robin While, John Pitts, J Phillip Jones, Peter Ager and Steve Rowland
A refresher course with a difference, planned around GPs' learning 'wants' and 'needs'. It worked for many.

Enhancing the educational value of clinical assistant posts
Trevor Gibbs
Clinical assistants benefit greatly from educationally planned attachments.

Teaching addiction prevention: an innovative approach
John Priestley, Vivienne Saunders, Vanessa Crawford, Liz McShane and Hamid Ghodse
Practice-based addiction counsellors provide a good service to patients and also provide excellent training for the practice team.

Appraisal for general practice development: an evaluation of a programme of appraisal courses held in the Northern Region in 1995/6
Hilary Haman and Sally Irvine
A course about appraisal fires the enthusiasm of a group of GP educators. A year later most of them are applying what they learnt.

Regional variations in approving events for the postgraduate education allowance
Fiona Nicol and E Graham Buckley
PGEA approval involves both encouraging good educational practice and preventing fraud. These two functions seem incompatible and neither is done well.

General practitioner teaching during undergraduate hospital rotations
Richard Hays, Craig Veitch and Peter Mudge
Students enjoy input from other disciplines during their hospital attachments.

TEACHING EXCHANGE

NEWS AND VIEWS

ASSOCIATION OF COURSE ORGANIZERS

TRAINERS' WORKSHOP

FROM MY DIARY...........

HASLAM ON EDUCATION

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE

NEIGHBOUR ON BOOKS