Volume 10 Number 1 contents

LEADING ARTICLES

'Catchers in the Rye': helping troubled adolescents in primary care
John Salinsky

Quality in the new NHS - the role of education and trianing in general practice and primary care
Neil Jackson

ARTICLES

Interprofessional care: how can we make it work?
Abdol Tavabie
'Pride and prejudice' get in the way of working in groups.

Exploring blocks to effective communicaiton in the medical interview
Juliet Draper and Sue Weaver
We may know what to do but we can't always do it.  With help and support out blocks can often be overcome.

Evaluation of a teaching package in adolescent psychiatry for general practitioners registrars
Paul Bernard, Elena Garralda, Tim Hughes and Andre Tylee
A carefully planned session about adolescent psychiatry proves useful for GP registrars.

A regional objective structured clinical examination - development and evaluation
Ron McGan, Rob Fouracre, Alison Evans and Jamie Bahrami
OSCEs with immediate feedback are useful and popular with GP registrars.

Do we need to improve inner-city training for London?
Brian Harris
Day release courses for registrars do not cover many inner-city problems.  If they did, recruitment to deprived areas may improve.

The introduction of personal learning plans for GPs in Grampian, Orkney and Shetland
Fiona French and Malcolm Valentine
Self-directed learning goes into mass production in North East Scotland.  A revolution in GP education?

Doctors' retainer scheme: a different perspective
Jamie Bahrami and Carol Singleton
Yorkshire practices provide a good environment for doctors on the retainer scheme or so they say.

Use of an objective structured clinical examination to assess general practitioner competence in sexual and reproductive health
Marcela Cox, Deirdre O'Dea and Lesley Yee
An OSCE is a good way of assessing competence at the end of a course. It can also be used to plan future learning.

TEACHING EXCHANGE

NEWS AND VIEWS

ASSOCIATION OF COURSE ORGANIZERS

TRAINERS' WORKSHOP

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

HASLAM ON EDUCATION

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE

BOOKS AND BURCH