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16th Mar 2006

Self-interest taints gp learning curve

By: Dr Con Costa

First published: Saturday, September 17, 2005

ONGOING education is a vital part of being a doctor – very little in medicine being still the same as when most of us left university. If you don’t keep up to date both you and your patients are in big trouble.

But recent criticisms of the postgraduate education system, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), is somewhat misplaced. Some doctors may be rorting the system – but most take it very seriously.

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