Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
“A GP, eh? Well I guess there are worse things you could do.”
That was the only careers advice I got in my final year at medical school.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has previously raised awareness of bad mouthing of GPs during medical school training.
The college highlighted the fact that many consultants teaching in medical schools talk about general practice as a second-rate career option to hospital medicine and that this is one of the reasons we are short of GPs.
I’ve no doubt that bad press does nothing to improve recruitment to our ranks, but the pressures on the family doctor service, which has led to the closure of dozens of practices across the country, has also played its part in making general practice less attractive to medical graduates.
https://www.theguardian.com/healthc...ul/24/general-practice-nhs-recruitment-crisis
That was the only careers advice I got in my final year at medical school.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has previously raised awareness of bad mouthing of GPs during medical school training.
The college highlighted the fact that many consultants teaching in medical schools talk about general practice as a second-rate career option to hospital medicine and that this is one of the reasons we are short of GPs.
I’ve no doubt that bad press does nothing to improve recruitment to our ranks, but the pressures on the family doctor service, which has led to the closure of dozens of practices across the country, has also played its part in making general practice less attractive to medical graduates.
https://www.theguardian.com/healthc...ul/24/general-practice-nhs-recruitment-crisis
