Volume 13 Number 2 contents

LEADING ARTICLES

The challenge of doing things differently: one new medical school's vision of primary care education
Amanda Howe and Christopher Hand

Learners and funders: incorporating principles from educational guidance into the evaluation of advisory support for practitioners interested in research
Hilarie Bateman and Ann-Louise Kinmouth

ARTICLES

Practice professional development plans - a review of a deanery pilot
George Taylor and Tim van Zwanenberg

An assessment of the GP Retainer Scheme
Anne Hastie

General practitioners' experiences of teaching a community course to undergraduate medical students: a qualitative study
Shona Lammie, Edwin van Teijlingen, Hazel Sinclair, Blair Smith, Fiona French and Ross Taylor

Evaluation of the Mid-Wessex Day Release Course
Samantha Scallan, Andy Hall, Richard Styles, Carol Linnard and Steve Hill-Cousins

Facilitated self-reflection as an introduction to peer appraisal for general practitioners
Claire Cox

A pilot study of the introduction of personal development plans in Northern Ireland - practical experiences and implications for revalidation
Terry Bradley and Agnes McKnight

Incorporating teaching into vocational training: reflections of a teaching fellow
Maria Markides and Trevor Gibbs

TEACHING EXCHANGE

The plays: a teaching session for GP registrars on the York and Coast VTS
Jonathan Lloyd

Teaching medical students how to relate to patients
Amy Blue, Clive Brock and Alan Johnson

Joint surgeries: updating an old idea
Petre Jones

ROUND UP
Primary care education is alive and well throughout the UK.  Computers in Sheffield, new trainers in the West Midlands and health visitors nationwide are included.  Things are different in Russia....

JOURNAL WATCH

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

TATE ON TRAINING
Peter Tate wonders whether endpoint assessment is better for training than many trainers seem to think

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE
What drives Captain Ahab to seek vengeance on the white whale?  Bring your seaboots and your sou'wester: we are off for a cruise on the Pequod in search of Moby Dick.

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