General practitioners routinely work with clinical situations shaped by social conditions, cultural meanings, chronic illness and ethical tensions. A workshop delivered at WONCA 2025 introduced medical anthropology as a conceptual lens, enabling participants to make explicit forms of reasoning already used implicitly in everyday consultations. Feedback from this workshop raised a recurring question: how can anthropological perspectives be translated into practical methods that both enrich clinical work and support engagement in qualitative research grounded in general practice?This workshop aims to help participants recognise observation and attention as skills that can be developed in general practice. Participants will practice a simple anthropological observation exercise applicable to everyday consultations, understand how careful observation generates relevant clinical and research questions and identify how these skills can support reflective practice and the early stages of qualitative inquiry.The workshop is built around a single practical observation exercise inspired by the work of Nicolas Nova, a renowned anthropologist, who conceptualises observation as a cognitive capacity that requires training. The session opens with a brief summary of the objectives and key elements of the workshop delivered at WONCA 2025. Participants then work in small groups on the observation exercise, followed by peer discussion and a plenary exchange bringing together observations across groups. The session concludes with a synthesis linking these observations to everyday clinical encounters and to the foundations of qualitative research, including fieldnotes and question formulation. No prior knowledge of medical anthropology is required to participate in this workshop.Participants will gain a concrete, low-threshold tool to strengthen observational and reflexive capacities already present in everyday general practice. By making these practices explicit, the workshop supports more attentive, patient-centred consultations and demonstrates how routine clinical observation and questioning form the basis of qualitative inquiry.By building on skills that general practitioners already use in routine practice, this workshop shows that engaging in qualitative research does not require complex methods and  separation from clinical work. Medical anthropology is presented as a practical and accessible resource that supports clinical reflection while opening realistic pathways into qualitative research within everyday general practice.