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Online news - 4 April 2008
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More women in general practice is bad news, expert claims
Increasing numbers of female graduates will create a major shortfall in primary care provision and may also affect education, research, and development, a leading researcher has claimed.
Writing in the BMJ, Brian McKinstry, senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, argued that evidence is growing to demonstrate the ‘negative consequences of the feminisation of primary care’ in the UK and elsewhere. For example, fewer women than men choose to work out of hours, and the increase in women doctors may have partly influenced the recent abandonment of out of hours work by general practitioners in the UK, he claims.
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