Volume 10 Number 4 contents

LEADING ARTICLES

Primary care groups: criteria, expectations and education and training issues
Yvonne Carter and Neil Jackson

GP tutors, work-based learning and primary care groups
Jonathan Burton, Neil Jackson and Yomi McEwen

Learning portfolios, professional practice and assessment
John Pitts

ARTICLES

Shifting the educational climate, an inner-city experience of a move towards self-directed learning
Karen Stubbs and Prasanta Bhowmik
Inner-city GPs take well to active learning.

Extended GP registrarships - the LIZEI experiment
Peter D Toon, Neil Jackson, Patrick Claude, Pietroni, Ri Hornung, Tom Boyd, Geoffrey Norris and Alan Ruben
An exciting model of flexible GP training could not be fully realised.

The LIZEI scheme: do GP facilitator visits increase educational activity?
Paul Myers
The approach to education by inner-London GPs is transformed by a brief facilitator visit.

Sabbaticals for general practitioners: will they solve an educational problem?
Trevor Gibbs and Jane Harvey
Health authority-funded GP sabbaticals work wonders for morale.

The participation of women returners to general practice in a re-entry course: another lost tribe?
Chris Stephens
A re-entry course provides education in a supportive environment.

Training and development of doctors for general practice
Anne White and Martin Severs
Education schemes for young GPs are supportive and help recruitment.

Using problem-based interviewing to develop the teaching skills of GP trainers
Paul Robinson and Brian Ormston
Learning from videos of tutorials is aided by adopting a method of consultation analysis.

Information and communications technology training for general practice:
i) a pilot project using lap-top computers by GP registrars
Richard Savage
Providing personal computers greatly helps GP registrars to learn, but who pays?

A pilot-randomized trial evaluating GP trainee management of major depression following brief training in cognitive behaviour
Oliver Davidson, Michael King, Deborah Sharp and Fiona Taylor
GP registrars welcome training in behaviour therapy - and it probably helps their patients.

Evidence-based medicine and undergraduate education: the potential versus the reality for primary healthcare teams
Nicola Hagdrup, Richard Gray, Marion Edwards, Maggie Falshaw and Yvonne Carter
Undergraduate teaching practices have the will but not the skill to teach evidence-based medicine.

TEACHING EXCHANGE

NEWS AND VIEWS

COURSE ORGANIZERS AND GP TUTORS

TRAINERS' WORKSHOP

FROM MY DIARY. . .

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

INNER SENSE

HASLAM ON EDUCATION

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE

BOOKS AND BURCH