Volume 13 Number 3 contents

LEADING ARTICLES

Guest editorial: Clinical governance an continuing professional development: a question of accountability
Mayur Lakhani

Clinical competence: a review of methods used to assess competence and proposals for a realistic future strategy
Nick Lyons

ARTICLES

Registrar audit and implementation of change: a pilot project
John McKay, Murray Lough and Stuart Murray

General practice training: the registrar's perspective - a focus group study
Jo Piercy and Jeremy Dale

The challenge of being a community tutor on the Manchester Medical Undergraduate Degree Programme
John Sandars and Nick Boreham

Impact on non-principals in general practice of the summative assessment audit project
Paul Bowie, Alison Garvie, Janice Oliver and Murray Lough

Innovative training posts in general practice: an evaluation of the North Trent experience
Nick Field, Nigel Mathers and Pat Lane

General practitioners: uncelebrated audit learners - a qualitative study
Induja Bandara and Graham Calvert

Steps in promoting interprofessional learning for the primary care team: gaining academic accreditation for the Mid-Wessex Day-Release Course
Samantha Scallan and Andy Hall

TEACHING EXCHANGE

Tutorial recording and feedback and its relationship with curriculum development, endpoint assessment and appraisal
Graham Rutt and Mike Dodd

Use of video to enhance registrars' ability to work in teams
Alan Forbes and Cathy Hogan

Training in family medicine: the current state in Turkey
Hakan Yaman

ROUND UP
Continuing professional development features in London, Romania, Staffordshire and at the NAPCE conference.  Contributors offer food for thought for many of us and important advice for the RCGP and the CMO.

JOURNAL WATCH

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

TATE ON TRAINING
Peter Tate muses about the future of general practice and what we will be training the next generation of registrars to do.

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE
Come and meet a human beetle, a paranoid badger and a singing mouse with charisma: three amazing animal characters from the stories of Franz Kafta.

THE GREEN BOOKSHOP