title: Beginning to work together.
abstract: Ten people met for the first time as trainees after lunch on Thursday, 4 February, 1988 at an hotel near Ipswich. They were to live and work together until teatime on Saturday. Twelve trainers joined them from late afternoon on Friday, staying on after the trainees left, until lunchtime on the Sunday. The occasion was the start of the 1988 vocational training schemes for East Anglia and North East Thames Regions. In this article, J. K. Horrocks and W. R. Allen given an account of what happened during this time, and how people felt about it.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Horrocks
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D003815:Dentists; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007400:Interprofessional Relations