Boost GP recruitment by training medical students in practices, say researchers

Medical students who receive their primary care training in general practice rather than a classroom are more likely to choose to enter the profession, researchers have found. The researchers said that their findings showed that more medical undergraduate funding should be directed towards general practice placements “to address the crisis in recruitment in primary medical care.”1 In a paper published in the British Journal of General Practice , researchers from Newcastle Medical School said that they had found “an association between the quantity of clinical general practice teaching at medical school and later …