Abstract

Around half of medical students will end up training to become GPs. Yet this career pathway is viewed by many students as a “soft option”—consigning you to a lifetime of colds and ingrown toenails. I recently heard a fellow medical student remark to another: “Don’t take this offensively, but I think you’d make a really good GP.” Where does this disregard for general practice as a career stem from, and why do some medical schools produce disproportionately fewer GPs? In the latest UK Foundation Programme Office national F2 career destination survey,1 medical students from Bristol …

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