<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gavriel, Jennifer</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gavriel, George</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The newly qualified GP induction year: an alternative for a fifth year of training?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013-09-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">e654-e656</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp13X671795</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">63</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">614</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In 2008 the Tooke report stated that the length of training in general practice is ‘currently inadequate to meet the demands of shifts in care to the primary sector’ and that it ‘should be extended to 5 years’.1 This report identified significant differences between GP training in the UK and other developed European countries and also with other specialities within the UK. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) recently published their vision for general practice in 2022.2 This document states that: ‘GPs will need enhanced and extended training, in order to develop the knowledge, skills and expertise to be fit for purpose in the NHS and to meet the health needs and expectations of patients and the wider population’.The RCGP has also considered an ST5 year specifically, commenting on the opportunity to broaden trainees’ experiences of general practice into the community and to give them opportunities to specialise according to their own interests.3 This article offers an alternative to an ST5 year, proposing a fifth year of training to be undertaken after obtaining Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT). This is based on the current system for teachers in England. The Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) induction programme introduces teachers to the profession in a ‘light touch’ mentored and regulated year following completion of their vocational training.After achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), NQTs must satisfactorily complete an induction year. NQTs apply for teaching posts, competing against experienced teachers for positions within the teaching job market. Once appointed, the head teacher notifies the local authority that the NQT has a suitable post. The induction year can be completed part time and can be completed in more than one consecutive post. However, NQTs must spend at least one school term in each post to ‘demonstrate their ability …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>