ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners1997
Putting principals back into practice: an evaluation of a re-entry course for vocationally trained doctors.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- General practice workforce retention strategies: an umbrella review.BMC primary care · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of strategies to recruit and retain primary care doctors.BMC health services research · 2016Pooled it
- The future general practitioner: out of date and running out of time.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2000Article
- The future for non-principal general practitioners: lost doctors--lost to whom?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1999Article
- GP non-principals' education: let's improve access for our flexible friends.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998Article
- PRODIGY: implementing clinical guidance using computers.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrent recruitment difficulties in general practice have sharpened the interest of the profession in non-principals. No re-entry course for general practice has previously been run in the UK.
aimTo design and evaluate a re-entry course for general practice.
methodA re-entry course was developed to help doctors return to general practice as principals. A telephone interview was carried out with each delegate prior to their attendance on the course and was repeated one month and six months after the course to measure any change in career intentions and the perceived benefit of attending the course.
resultsSix months after the course, 11 out of 14 delegates had taken positive steps to return to general practice or had increased their time commitment to medicine. This contrasts with only one of the control group having made any steps to change career.
conclusionThe course was evaluated and found to be beneficial, particularly in terms of increasing the confidence of the delegates.
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