[Hospital training--for good and for evil. An interview study among general practitioners]

50 Norwegian doctors selected at random from the population of general practitioners who were neither recognized specialists nor enrolled in the specialist training programme, were interviewed by telephone about the need for postgraduate hospital training and the obstacles involved. Most of the doctors expressed a strong need for the education provided by such training. The most important obstacles to hospital training were personal domestic reasons, concern for the functioning of the practice and concern for the emotional problems the hospital work might cause. Strategies are suggested to make it easier, in practice and emotionally, to do hospital training.