Volume 12 Number 1 contents

LEADING ARTICLES

A lifelong curriculum for general practice?
Sean Hilton and Simon Smail

Mental illness or human distress? Challenges for primary care educators
Jonathan Burton and Penny Morris

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ARTICLES

The difficult consultation. An action learning project about mental health issues in the consultation
Penny Morris, Kathryn Burton, Madeleine Reiss and Jonathan Burton

Making practice-based professional development plans relevant to service needs and priorities
Ruth Chambers and Ellen Schrijver

Unprepared and anxious about 'breaking bad news': a report of two communication skills workshops for general practice registrars
Glyn Elwyn, Has Joshi, Douglas Dare, Mike Deighan and Fiona Kameen

Changing the approach for teaching medical students in the primary care setting
Rachel Dahan, Shmuel Reis, Riki van Raalte and Doron Hermoni

Small groups in Mersey region 1989-1998
John Howard

Understanding the tutorial in general practice: towards the development of an assessment tool
Robert Caird and Jane Ogden

Assessing the general practice tutorial: a pilot study
Robert Caird and Jane Ogden

Do new principals joining their training practices have different needs?
George Taylor

TEACHING EXCHANGE

NEWS AND VIEWS

JOURNAL WATCH

COURSE ORGANISERS AND GP TUTORS

TRAINERS' WORKSHOP

FROM MY DIARY. . .

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

INNER SENSE

HASLAM ON EDUCATION

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE

BOOKS AND BURCH