TY - JOUR T1 - A practice of place JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 89 LP - 89 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X701177 VL - 69 IS - 679 AU - Tim Senior Y1 - 2019/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/679/89.abstract N2 - My medical degrees aren’t just qualifications, they are passports. It wasn’t long after I became a doctor that I came to Australia for the first time, and then again after my GP training. I’ve done quite a lot of moving around, never spending more than about 3 years in one place. Except now, I’m coming up to 14 years in one practice. I’m not unusual. Many doctors in both Australia and in the UK aren’t working in the country in which they qualified. In the EU, doctors are among the most mobile professions1 (with ski-instructors being the most mobile!).Clearly, we’ve got transferable skills. Taking a history and exam is similar wherever we are, and, although health systems … ER -