Time for a national undergraduate curriculum for primary care.

摘要

Blythe and Hancock pose an interesting question, but their article does not highlight three important issues.First, that an undergraduate curriculum results in a generic 'product', whose nascent knowledge and competency must relate to patient care regardless of their subsequent specialisation. Second, that these competencies will be attained in different ways in different settings, and often are and should be practised in more than one undergraduate setting or speciality, both prescribing and consultation skills are exemplars. Third, the fact that a specific speciality does or does not lead on a specific component may not mean that the graduate fails to achieve that competency.