Maintaining performance, learning and teaching part 1

摘要

Over the next four articles we will deal with how GPs manage themselves sufficiently to maintain performance.Maintaining our medical performance is no different to maintaining our physical or mental performance. Think of it as 'health promotion' but with the added dimension that we are doing it partly for ourselves but mostly because others may come to harm if we do not.What does this mean in practice? Performance, like health promotion, is not just about having good intentions; anyone can give up smoking once they have been told they have lung cancer. Maintaining performance is about respecting its importance to those dependent upon us, having the commitment to do something regularly and having a mechanism for doing so.