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Vocational Training and new Curriculum

Training for General Practice will usually take three years. Some specialist programmes, such as academic schemes, may take longer.

After the Foundation Programme, most doctors who have chosen General Practice as a career will follow a three year programme of Specialist Training for General Practice; others, who may not have decided their final career choice, will enter a one year programme of generic Specialist Training and then transfer across to the final two years of the GP programme.

New programmes

In some ways, they are similar to current Vocational Training Schemes. Instead of Course Organisers, each programme will have a Programme Director, who will have responsibility for the sequence of posts that make up the programme and the teaching that is provided.

The Programme Director will be responsible for the learners and their education.  They will be helped by educators in primary care and secondary care. The emphasis will be on learning in the workplace although some teaching will be in the classroom or on practical courses. There will be mentoring and educational supervision throughout the three years.

Applications for places on programmes will be through a national selection scheme.

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