Educational CPD: An exploration of the attitudes of UK GP trainers using focus groups and an activity theory framework

Medical Teacher

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Waters, Mark ^a   Wall, David ^b  

^a Cantilupe Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^b West Midlands Deanery ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH EDUCATOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONALISM; TEACHER; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; TEACHING;

EID: 57349157687     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590802258888     Document Type: Article

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