Consultant physicians workforce: now and in the future

Consultant physicians in the U.K.

On 30 September each year the Medical Workforce Unit of the Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP) undertakes a census of consultant physicians on behalf of the Federation of Medical Royal Colleges of the UK. The 16th census collated responses (online or hard copy) and confirmed or supplemented data from other sources including specialist societies and Human Resources departments within tr...

Cosmetic Neurology: For Physicians the Future is Now.

patients satisfaction from their consultant physicians in Shiraz

the present study was designed to investigate a quantitative method for evaluation of patients satisfaction from their consultant physicians.seventy eight physicians were selected randomly by systematic sampling method from a total of 421 consultant physicians practicing in Shiraz.ten patients were selected randomly for each consultant physician that results in a sample of 780 patients.a questi...

Hospitalists and consultant physicians in acute medicine.

and Bournemouth in the UK2 describe new approaches to the hospital care of acutely ill patients. Although from historically different systems of health care, each addresses familiar concerns. Baudendistel and Wachter1 consider the development and evaluation of the relatively new specialty of the hospitalist, who is identified by the place of practice rather than by expertise with diseases of a ...

Consultant physicians working for patients.

and the changing roles of professionals within it. The Royal College of Physicians must contribute to this debate, restating fundamentals but updating its views on how to maintain high standards of medical care for patients and on the conditions that are necessary for physicians, especially consultants, necessary to deliver that care. In this present state of change, physicians need a clear vie...