Introduction

In 2007 the Royal College of General Practitioners launched the new MRCGP as a single route for vocational training to be a General Practitioner. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book covers the main medical topics that are fundamental to general practice. It then provides current treatment issues, National Service Frameworks, the latest research, questions, etc. The information is all clearly referenced and the issues are not clouded by the personal opinions, the whole point to postgraduate learning is to formulate the own opinions. Part of the groundwork at an early stage is to speak to as many people as possible about their learning techniques and approach for the nMRCGP. More enlightened doctors manage to keep up to date with the journals and comics, do their own video analysis and even have a mentor.