Volume 13 Number 4 contents

LEADING ARTICLE

Doctors in management: an approach to developing competence
Terry Desombre and Fraser Macfarlane

ARTICLES

Senior house officers in vocational training schemes for general practice: audit and the educational contract
Murray Lough, Moya H Kelly and Stuart Murray

Prolonged study leave: who takes it, and what is if for?
Alison Evans, Jim Ford and Jamie Bahrami

Increasing the capacity for general practice registrar training: a study in the London region
Judith Green, Kate Osborne, Isobel Bowler and Neil Jackson

Views of general practitioners in academic posts about careers in academic general practice: a national survey
Penelope Lee and Michael Goldacre

What do general practitioners think about annual appraisal?  A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study in southeast Scotland
Brian McKinstry, Johnstone Shaw, Lisa McGilvray and Lesley Skinner

Factors influencing career choice: experience from GP Career Start in County Durham
Rich Bregazzi and Jamie Harrison

Identifying and addressing registrars' concerns using a discomfort log
Michael Dodd, Graham Rutt and Manjit S Suchdev

What is the role of double-marking?  Evidence from an undergraduate medical course
Blair Smith, Hazel Sinclair, Julie Simpson, Edwin van Teijlingen, Christine Bond and 
Ross Taylor

Do physicians know what they should learn?
YT Wun and James Dickinson

TEACHING EXCHANGE

Theories of teaching and learning
Michael Harris and Bill Irish

Planning a way forward in primary care in Southampton and South West Hampshire
Brenda Sawyer, Stephen Hayes, Julie Chinn, Peter White and Stephen Vincent

ROUND UP
Politics in Oxford, philosophy in London, portfolios in Yorkshire and preparation for SHOs in Wessex and London are in the news this time.

JOURNAL WATCH

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

TATE ON TRAINING
The perils and pitfalls of the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension: a medical educator's nightmare?

MEDICINE AND LITERATURE
Let's visit a charming little South American town where life is a dream and every day is magical.  But are we prepared for One Hundred Years of Solitude?

THE GREEN BOOKSHOP