1st Edition

A Career Companion to Becoming a GP Developing and Shaping Your Career

By Patrick Hutt, Sophie Park Copyright 2011
198 Pages
by CRC Press

194 Pages
by CRC Press

'How many general practitioners ended up in their roles thanks to a faint breeze nudging them in a given direction? How many successes resulted from failure? Some of the most successful practices were built up from nothing, and some of the happiest doctors spent time not being doctors. Despite the element that fate plays in career paths it is prudent to make plans - ' A career in general practice... Read more
List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction to general practice. Career profile: Chris Kenyon. Reflective piece: 'Extraordinary ordinary people' Alex Thain. General practice specialty training. Reflective piece: 'Medical maternal' Anne Solomon. Reflective piece: 'Why general practice? Why me?' Ronald MacVicar. Salaried jobs and partnerships. Career profile: Clifton Marks. Reflective piece: 'Good enough' Rebecca Ship. Locum and out-of-hours work. Career profile: Sarah Donald. Reflective piece: Out-of-hours work Sophie Kuhn. GPs with a special interest. Career profile: David Whittington. Reflective piece: 'What do you use when you have sex?' Radhika Shah. Academic general practice. Career profile: Steve Iliffe. Reflective piece: 'Academic general practice' Surinder Singh. Professional development. Reflective piece: 'What Balint did for me' John Salinsky. Reflective piece: 'When it happens to us' Anna Denshuck. Teaching in general practice. Career profile: Ann Griffin. Reflective piece: 'Family education' Pauline Bryant. International primary care. Career profile: Zorayda E Leopando. Reflective piece: 'Médecins Sans Frontiers.' Index.

Biography

Hutt, Patrick ; Park, Sophie