TY - JOUR T1 - Book reviews JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 571 LP - 571 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X593947 VL - 61 IS - 590 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2011/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/590/571.abstract N2 - ACADEMIC GENERAL PRACTICE IN THE UK MEDICAL SCHOOLS 1948–2000; A SHORT HISTORY JOHN HOWIE AND MICHAEL WHITFIELD Edinburgh University Press, 2011 PB, 160, £19.99, 978-0784643561 The first university chair of General Practice in the UK was established in Edinburgh 15 years after the beginning of the NHS, in 1963. Academic general practice and primary care is now a strong and self-confident discipline, making major contributions to undergraduate education and to research in the UK medical schools and, of course, primary care is now at the heart of the NHS reforms, with self-evident implications for academic supportThis readable compilation of accounts of how the discipline developed in each medical school, written by those most involved, at least in more recent events, may not have the brio of a David Lodge or even a CP Snow story but it is nonetheless an interesting one. Remarkable, really, to think of how those who had fallen off Lord Moran's ladder have emerged as research leaders, educational innovators, and Deans of medical schools. Many of the early units sprang from established departments of … ER -