title: GPs with special interests - benefits to patients, GPs and the community.
abstract: Some general practitioners are naturally drawn to particular patients and skill sets, and it is from this intellectual curiosity that they develop special interests. General practitioners with special interests (GPwSI) offer great potential benefit to patients, the profession and the health care system, and need to be supported. Colleges, universities and other training and accrediting bodies play an important role in supporting these GPs.
authors.affiliation: The University of Queensland, Discipline of General Practice. g.spurling@uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Spurling
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D001315:Australia; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D000078329:Workforce