New RCGP chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne on tackling the challenges facing general practice
Talking General Practice
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Is General Practice Still a Career Option for Medical Students?
In recent years, there's been a lot of discussion about whether medical students are put off general practice as possible career options. Do you think that's still a problem? And what would you like to see medical schools doing to help increase exposure to general practice to medical students? It is still happening. I was just discussing it with them only yesterday. I think that we are making headway. The college has been doing an awful lot of work on promoting general practice as a diverse and exciting career to students. Many medical schools are also now introducing general practice in the very early years, in years one and two of their curricula. In fact, we have really enthusiastic GP societies in many medical
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