Fixing GP training: Is this mission impossible?
The demands being made of the RACGP are significant as it unveils its plan for GP training
As missions go, the one facing the RACGP does feel close to impossible.
Next year, it finally takes back control of the GP training program, having been ignominiously stripped from its grasp 20 years ago and handed to a government quango.
Since that time, it has continued to dictate standards and put together the fellowship exams, but it has had limited say over the training program itself and the subsequent experience of the trainees selected.
Last month, the college began circulating among its membership a 20-page position paper outlining a new model for the program’s future.
