TY - JOUR T1 - Not Child’s Play JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 163 LP - 163 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X684241 VL - 65 IS - 633 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/633/163.abstract N2 - Why is vocational training for general practice so short? Lord Moran got it completely wrong when he talked about GPs falling off the specialist ladder: the job of the GP is as intellectually and emotionally demanding as many, if not most, hospital specialties, and the breadth and depth of skills and knowledge required to do it properly are virtually limitless. The training period in the UK is short compared with some other European countries and less than half the length of many specialist programmes. The academic case for extending the period of vocational training by at least 1 year was made elegantly by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in 2012, but little progress has been made since then. Several articles in this issue of the BJGP underline the importance of pressing this argument.Our editorial on multimorbidity … ER -