Teaching health promotion and illness prevention to trainee general practitioners.

This study demonstrates that the provision of feedback based on the observation of videotaped consultations can be used to increase self-awareness of deficiencies in health promotion and illness prevention skills. Trainee general practitioners were found to have some awareness of deficiencies in this important aspect of general practice, and this awareness increased as a result of self-observation and the feedback. Performance was self-evaluated to be better at the end of the general practice term than at the beginning.