= Registered users
= Paid-up subscribersThe Practitioner has been meeting the changing educational needs of GPs for more than 140 years. It is peer reviewed and articles are included on the prestigious PubMed international database.
The monthly journal aims to keep GPs up to date by providing concise but in-depth coverage of important clinical developments that will have an impact on primary care.
The Practitioner symposia
Each issue contains two or three articles in a themed symposium. These are written by specialists, and named GP advisers review the articles to ensure their relevance to general practice and highlight the key points.
Special report
Each issue also contains a special report on another major clinical area, written by specialists and reviewed by the GP advisers.
Photoguide
A pictorial quick reference guide on diagnosing dermatological and other conditions in primary care.
Continuing professional development (CPD) exercise
The CPD exercise is based on articles in that issue. The questions are in a variety of formats including specimen case histories to help GPs apply what they have learnt to real-life situations. Once GPs have completed the exercise they can cut it out and add it to their personal development plan to demonstrate ongoing learning for their mandatory annual appraisal that all UK GPs have to undergo.
72% of readers use articles in the journal for their mandatory annual appraisal, and 56% of them specifically use the CPD exercise in their appraisal. (2011 editorial survey)
►74% of readers do the CPD exercise
►56% of readers use the CPD exercise for their appraisal* (up from 36% in 2009)
►72% of readers use the actual articles in the journal for their appraisal* (up from 31% in 2009)
A hundred years ago
An article from an issue a century ago to remind GPs how much - or how little - medicine has changed.
Haslam's view
Professor David Haslam, former President, Royal College of General Practitioners, and award-winning writer, is The Practitioner's long standing columnist and an editorial adviser.
