Remuneration is less than pay for direct patient contact - even at locum rates. SIFT will double this figure. However, most University departments take on GPs as clinical senior lecturers, with a part-time academic contract, paying considerably less. Figures vary depending on the staffing grade of each individual lecturer. Benefits are therefore not related to pay.
Any doctor entering undergraduate general practice teaching does so on a self-motivating basis.
One aspect may be that of 'escaping' patients and the stresses they generate. Also, being part of the future of general practice by nurturing medical students will appeal to many. Teaching has its own stresses, but to a certain extent these are controllable and not demand-driven. As with the rest of general practice, undergraduate teaching has entered an interesting period of change. The GMC paper, 'Tomorrow's Doctors', will ensure increased teaching of medical students within the community, by 'real' GPs.