Personal Qualities Required to Be a Good GP Include
There are many qualities needed by a doctor to become a good general practitioner. Some of the key ones are:
- Ability to care about patients and their relatives
- A commitment to providing high quality care
- An awareness of one’s own limitations
- An ability to seek help when appropriate
- Commitment to keeping up to date and improving quality of one’s own performance
- Appreciation of the value of team work
- Clinical competence
- Organisational ability
- Organisational ability
The personal skills assessed in the recruitment and selection process for entry to GP specialty training to measure the qualities outlined above are:
- Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: Capacity to apply sound clinical knowledge & awareness to full investigation of problems
- Empathy & Sensitivity: Capacity & motivation to take in others’ perspectives & to treat others with understanding
- Communication Skills: Capacity to adjust behaviour & language as appropriate to needs of differing situations
- Conceptual Thinking & Problem Solving: Capacity to think beyond the obvious, with analytical and flexible mind
- Coping with Pressure: Capacity to recognise own limitations and develop appropriate coping mechanisms
- Organisation & Planning: Capacity to organise information/time effectively in a planned manner
- Managing Others & Team Involvement: Capacity to work effectively in partnership with others
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