Wellbeing advice for newly qualified GPs

Dr Anish Kotecha offers new GPs some practical tips on how to ensure their wellbeing during the transition from training to independent practice.

Making the transition from a GP trainee to an independent practitioner can be daunting. The day after completion of training, all of a sudden new GPs are let free into the working world and have lost that support of their GP trainer and the program directors from their vocational training scheme.

This article hopes to provide doctors with some practical tips and tools to ensure their wellbeing during this often-unstable phase.