ABSTRACT
The chapter describes how learners can participate in projects and audits to gain both project skills and relevant clinical knowledge. Projects and audits should not be conducted without a clear and desirable purpose. This chapter helps both learner and supervisor to gain the most benefit from a practice-based clinical project. One of the nice features of learner projects is that they can be conducted with flexibility of timing and location. Training programme offices often keep lists of registrar projects and, of course, Medline and other databases should be searched. Practice-based projects are provided to guide supervisors and learners. Newsletters and meetings of the practice or the training programme are appropriate avenues. A higher proportion of the practice population appears to have current tetanus immunity than the broader community. The practice has the expected number of diabetic patients, as predicted by population figures. Most non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients are overweight. Most are normotensive, about 5" have signs of peripheral vascular disease.
