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Teaching and training for general practice: a Dutch academic success story

Harm WJ van Marwijk
BJGP Open 2017; 1 (2): bjgpopen17X100917. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen17X100917
Harm WJ van Marwijk
GP & Clinical Chair in General Practice Research, Centre for Primary Care, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, Manchester , UK
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An image of a dead canary in a carbon monoxide filled coal mine springs to mind when I think of the crisis affecting the GP workforce and NHS. As an experienced GP, researcher, and teacher from the Netherlands, I looked forward in 2015, to start working in the strongest academic primary care environment in the world. These last 2 years, the opportunities for GP research have indeed been better than in the Netherlands, but my overall impression is that, unfortunately, general practice itself is at the brink of collapse. I am not sure how my research would add to its sustainability. In this article, I briefly describe under what conditions GPs in the Netherlands successfully countered such crumbling forces and why academic structures in the Netherlands may have been more successful in supporting GPs.

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The first condition for good primary care and its teaching and training is a protective societal environment. To write that physicians in the UK do not perceive their government to be protective …

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