Influences on students' career decisions concerning general practice: a focus group study.

Background: Despite concerns about recruitment to UK general practice, there has been no concerted educational intervention to address them.

Aim: To better understand how medical students' perceptions of their experiences of their undergraduate curriculum may affect choosing general practice as a career.

Design And Setting: Qualitative study comprising focus groups of a total of 58 students from a range of medical schools across the UK.