Job Centre Plus - General Practitioner (GP)
General Practitioner (GP)
(Keywords:
doctor, gp, general practitioner, doctor)
GP Training traditionally lasts for three years. In the past, one year was spent in General Practice and two years gaining experience in hospital posts. Now you have 18 months in practice and the remaining time in hospital posts which last 4 months. In your first year you will spend four months in general practice.
The pay differs, and for each individual the choice of work experience can differ quite alot.
You have choices in this
profession, and can go on to achieve further experience in other fields, or just
opt for an all around Doctor who can solve numerous problems which people face.
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One of the advantages of choosing medicine as a career is the wide variety of ways in which you can work as a doctor. After you qualify from medical school you can work as a surgeon, in a laboratory, as an ophthalmologist, pathologist, research scientist, as a community physician, or in any number of other ways. However, nearly half the people who qualify as doctors become general practitioners. The joy of general practice is its infinite variety. You simply never know what you will be dealing with next. It could be a simple sore throat, a heart attack, a chest infection, a schizophrenic breakdown, a pregnancy or a convulsing child. Being a brain surgeon may be seen as a more glamorous career but no other branch of medicine has the remarkable variety of general practice.
The pay structure
for general practice is remarkably complicated but generally reflects the work
done by the doctor. The bulk of the pay currently arises from capitation fees.
This is a lump sum paid for each patient registered with the doctor. Additional
payments are made for reaching targets for procedures such as childhood
immunisations, visits made during the night, minor surgery, running asthma
clinics and so on. Out of the income paid the doctor has to employ staff,
although much of these costs are reimbursed.
At the time of writing, a new contract is being negotiated.
Most GPs are reasonably well paid. You are unlikely to become rich as a GP, but you are even less likely to become poor!
