TY - JOUR T1 - Vocational training for general practice JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 646 LP - 646 DO - 10.3399/bjgp12X659349 VL - 62 IS - 605 AU - Michael Essex-Lopresti Y1 - 2012/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/62/605/646.abstract N2 - It is 60 years since doctors were prohibited from entering general practice from the day they qualified in medicine. Until then a doctor on qualification was entitled ‘to practise Physic, including therein the practice of Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery’ without any further experience.1 The Medical Act 1950 introduced the pre-registration year that required doctors who qualified after 1 January 1953 to complete 1 year in approved posts before they could be fully registered with the General Medical Council. No further training was required for doctors entering general practice; indeed in 1958 Lord Moran expressed the view that people fell off the consultant ladder into general practice.2There was growing disquiet that there was no established programme of training and experience for doctors aiming to become consultants or GPs in the … ER -