Clinical Education for the Health Professions: Theory and Practice

Supervision in the general practice (GP) setting is work-based education. This chapter draws on three social theories of work-based education to provide a focus for exploring the tasks of GP supervised practice. Based on this, we consider the roles and needs of the trainee, the supervisor, and the t…

General practitioners (GPs) provision of longitudinal, relationship-based, holistic care to people and communities contributes to cost-effective health systems. Current trends are an increase in complexity of GPs’ work as patients age and develop more chronic diseases, and there are increased option…