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Interviews with portfolio GPs

Jasraj Panesar talks to three doctors who have stepped beyond conventional general practice to forge diverse careers that suit their passions, expertise, and skills

By: Jasraj Panesar

Completing specialty training can seem like a long route—one bound by well defined pathways and little career flexibility. A report published by Health Education England and the Medical Schools Council, By choice—not by chance, recently explored what could be done to better promote general practice as a specialty among medical students in the United Kingdom.1 The report noted that “generations Y and Z medical students have career aspirations that embrace diversity, flexibility, [and] globalism.” It added that GP portfolio careers should be promoted as a route for medical students to achieve just such diversity and scope.

More GPs are starting to have portfolio careers that match their passions, expertise, and skills.2 I interviewed three GPs who have found niches both inside and outside medical practice.

Media work was something that I fell into. My sister showed me a job advertisement for a BBC programme called Make My Body Younger, which

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