TY - JOUR T1 - Registrar to GP: a transition JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 745 LP - 745 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X613214 VL - 61 IS - 593 AU - Aman Arora Y1 - 2011/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/593/745.abstract N2 - Nervous excitement. That was how I felt the night before my life as a ‘real GP’ began. 3 August 2010 was my final day as a registrar and I remember counting down the last days of ‘training’ fluctuating between feelings of fear and the happy realisation that what I had worked towards for 10 years was imminent.Of course ‘training’ had not finished and I was actually embarking upon the steepest learning curve since I started as a junior doctor back in 2005. The transition has proved to be challenging, rewarding, and at times slightly unnerving, and I look back on it with a quiet sense of pride.Day 1. I turn up in my new suit (to one of the surgeries where I had been ‘the trainee’ just a day before) and before I have a chance to brew a coffee, the first call … ER -