Common ground in general-practitioner and health-visitor training--an experimental course.

A residential course for 21 general-practitioner vocational trainees and student health visitors is described. The aim was to introduce the two groups of trainee professionals to each other in an attempt to modify attitudes, increase knowledge of each other's work, and induce a more positive approach towards teamwork in their ultimate careers. Both groups achieved an improvement by the end, and over half said they understood the others' role better