Training for change

摘要

General practice professional training has evolved over several decades. Currently it is well established that both recruitment to GP Specialty training and Certification of Completion of Training (CCT) require the doctor to demonstrate specified competencies respective to his career stage.1–3 The competencies are partially based around expectations of the working GP: the pressures he faces within the range of situations it can be expected he would normally find himself in, and the attributes needed to overcome these successfully and calmly.