TY - JOUR T1 - Competent but Not Confident? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 933 LP - 933 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X544168 VL - 60 IS - 581 AU - Daniel Edgcumbe Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/581/933.abstract N2 - Newly qualified GPs are not as well prepared as they used to be. They are ‘competent but not confident’. ‘General practice is different these days’, ‘it is more complicated now’. These were some of the arguments trotted out by some senior members of the College at the 2010 annual RCGP conference in Harrogate, who support the extension of GP training from 3 years to 5.In recent years there has been a huge investment by the College in the education of its trainees. We now have a formal curriculum. There are workplace-based assessments. Patient satisfaction questionnaires mean direct patient feedback is a feature of modern training. These tools are combined with a rigorous and structured process of educational oversight, involving frequent formal reviews … ER -