General practice placements for pre-registration junior doctors: adding value to intern education and training.

Objective: To examine pre-registration junior doctors' perceptions of the value of a general practice term in their training program.

Design, Setting And Participants: Semi-structured interviews, in five teaching hospitals in South Australia in 2005, with 20 pre-registration junior doctors (interns) who had completed a general practice term and at least one core term of intern training.

Main Outcome Measure: Comparisons between general practice and teaching hospital core training terms with respect to the domains of junior doctor education.