What is a Gp Registrar ? Are they actual Doctors ? Pl answer?

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I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning. When I called my GP surgery, I was given an appointment with their registrar. Am I correct in thinking that registrars aren't fully qualified doctors? Are they actually qualified to see patients? Also, why do receptionists always ask about the reason for the appointment when booking? Isn't that private information and not their concern?

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GP registrars, (they used to be called GP Trainees in my day,) are fully qualified and registered doctors, ie they have passed out of medical school and completed their 2 years of preregistration in hospital and been admitted as fully registered doctors on to the GMC list.

They are currently on a 3 year GP registration course, this involves further hospital medical training in specialities which may include paediatrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, dermatology and general medicine etc. and an attachment to a practice under a supervising qualified GP. All GPs must undergo this training before they can become fully qualified GPs in their own right.

Exactly similar training periods occur in all the hospital specialities, where qualified doctors undergo further training in their chosen field, on the way to becoming either Consultants or Speciality Registrars.

In answer to your second question, you are under no obligation to tell the receptionist what your problem is. They are however bound by the same rules of confidentiality as the doctors and nurses. When appointments are in short supply knowing a little about the urgency of your problem does allow them to prioritise appointments.

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They are actual doctors but just for general practise (GP), which differs to a doctor in a hospital. A GP has no specific area in medicine, which is why they are generally going to help you from their wide spread knowledge. A doctor in a hospital will specialise in something such as orthopaedics or paediatrics and you would be referred to the one who has most knowledge that best fits your treatment ?

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