We want your views on this for a future theme issue of the BMJ.
Governmental and professional regulation now operates in most aspects of doctors' lives, yet doctors themselves have had little opportunity to air their views on what they think makes a good doctor or how good doctors should be made.
Contribute to this debate now by visiting our home page (bmj.com) or going direct to the debate at www.bmj.com/gooddoctor
All submissions will be published on the website and a selection of the best letters will be published in the theme issue that will be devoted to this topic in September 2002.