BMJ 1994;309:56 (2 July)

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Profession's ideas are ignored

EDITOR, - In his interview with England's chief medical officer Richard Smith raised the question of why the profession was so slow in coming forward with its own ideas.1 In response Dr Calman referred to a document from the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts and wondered why it had not come from general practice. I wish to point out that almost every recommendation in the document came from the profession and was either implemented or in the process of implementation. For instance, on the question of objective assessment, which seems to be the main battle cry of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, a perusal of the literature would have shown that formative assessment has been an integral part of training in general practice for many years and became mandatory from January 1993. Summative assessment has also been the subject of much debate, and this year . . . [Full text of this article]


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