Continuing medical education for isolated rural general practitioners--a journal project

County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland is a rural area where general practitioners generally work single-handed and in geographical isolation from library facilities. In order to facilitate access to current medical journals for general practitioners a project was started to supply them with the contents pages of recently received general practice literature from a central medical library. Following telephoned or written requests, reprint articles of interest were forwarded by return post. The detailed costs and analysis of the exercise for one year are included.