Letters
Problems will arise over who pays
EDITOR,--None of the references cited in Joe Wilton's article on preregistration house officers in general practice dates from before 1987.1 I have reported the experience of house officers attached to a practice in Runcorn, Cheshire, that was associated with a university in 1981 and 1982.2 I described the basis for the scheme and the way in which the attachments worked, including components of learning and methods of supervision. I also raised the need for clarification of administrative aspects such as finance and terms of employment. The "Runcorn scheme" foundered in 1982 after a promising start because of the predictable question, "Who pays the general practitioner house officer?" and implicit fears that a popular community scheme forpreregistration house officers might in some way threaten the size of the pool of young doctors required to staff the hospital service.
I wonder whether these aspects have been addressed effectively enough to make a
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Article
- Preregistration house officers in general practice
- Joe Wilton
BMJ 1995 310: 369-372.[Abstract] [Full Text]
This Article
- Full text
- Respond to this article
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when responses are posted
- Alert me when a correction is posted
Services
- Email this article to a friend
- Find similar articles in BMJ
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Related Content
- General practice / family medicine
- Relevant Article
- Find this article in its weekly table of contents
Bookmark with
What's new
Latest blogs
Services
Tools
Online poll
Resources
Rapid responses for this article
There are no rapid responses for this article.Most read
Print issues
