The purpose of this study is the development of a residency based vocational training programme in Family Medicine. The starting point is United Arab Emirates medical graduates. Many will have been undergraduates at the United Arab Emirates University, but some will have done their medical courses at universities in other Gulf States or overseas. It is an essential study because there is not a programme available at this time in Family Medicine and largely untrained, expatriate medical practitioners with a basic MB BS or equivalent degree conduct family practice. (From introduction)