PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Horder, J. P.
AU  - Swift, G.
TI  - The history of vocational training for general practice
DP  - 1979 Jan 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 24--32
VI  - 29
IP  - 198
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/29/198/24.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/29/198/24.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1979 Jan 01; 29
AB  - We feel that it is worth recording the story of how vocational training for general practice was first proposed, how the earliest experiments were started, and how this prolonged exercise in teamwork developed throughout the UK. It is appropriate to do this now that Parliament has recently voted that this training should be an obligation for all doctors who wish to work as general practitioner principals in the NHS. Moreover, the first person to exert a crucial influence, Henry Cohen (Lord Cohen of Birkenhead) has recently died. We write this account in historical sequence, not comprehensively, but selecting what in retrospect we believe to have been of chief importance. We describe initiatives at first unrelated to each other, but all contributing to one end. As the story unfolds, so does coordination in the common effort. The account ends at 1970.