ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a method of peer support for General Practitioners (GPs) that has been developed in East Anglia since 1994 and is known as 'co-tutoring'. It explains what co-tutoring is, and describes how it works using some examples, deals with some frequently asked questions about it, and discusses its value. In 1994, Andrew Eastaugh, a GP in Suffolk, suggested co-tutoring as a process of mutual support and education. He saw it as a way of GPs becoming more 'collegiate'. The process could help with the isolation that many GPs were feeling at the time and could be a useful focus for the local Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners. The chapter also discuuses the concept of mentoring derives from Mentor in Homer's Odyssey. Mentor was charged with supporting and guiding Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, while his father was away fighting the Trojan wars.
