During specialty training, Associates in Training (AiTs) are well supported. They have regular contact with their trainer, peer support at the GP specialty-training programme and a job, often guaranteed for the 3 years running up to obtaining a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT). All this changes the day after finishing training when the weekly specialty training programme meetings stop and the trainer is no longer in the next room. New GPs find themselves in the ever-changing landscape of modern general practice.1 New GPs have so many options open to them at this point and may be salaried, locums, or partners and work in out-of-hours or urgent care centres, undertake academia, or become a forces doctor. All these young doctors often share a common sense of ‘falling off a cliff’ at the end of training. The RCGP has established a special group for newly qualified GPs to help support and develop their clinical and professional skills during the first crucial 5 years as independent practitioners.
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