Volume 11 Number 4 contents

LEADING ARTICLES

Managed continuing professional development, the GP tutor and change management in primary care: an obvious opportunity 
Malcolm Valentine

Education for General Practice and communication skills: the first ten years
Paul Sackin

ARTICLES

Evaluating satisfaction with hospital training for general practice: a comparison of two surveys in East Anglia for the JCPTGP using the RCGP SHO
Christopher Hand

GP principal recruitment and retention in County Durham: a comparison of joiner-leaver surveys from 1996 and 1999
Linda Redpath and Jamie Harrison

Practice-based learning: an alternative approach to continuing medical education in primary care
Gordon Black and Lesley MacDonald

A method of assessment of hospital posts accredited for GP training
Ted Leverton

Action speaks louder than words: sculpting - a technique for improving the communication skills of healthcare professionals 
David Jeffrey

Extended vocational training: the registrars' perspective
Geoffrey Norris, Rodney Gale, Neil Jackson, Ri Hornung, Abdol Tavabie and Patrick Pietroni

TEACHING EXCHANGE

NEWS AND VIEWS

JOURNAL WATCH

COURSE ORGANIZERS AND GP TUTORS

TRAINERS' WORKSHOP

FROM MY DIARY. . .

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

INNER SENSE

HASLAM ON EDUCATION

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE

BOOKS AND BURCH