Do senior registrars have adequate management training?

Training programme for senior registrars in community paediatrics.

Consultant paediatricians with a special interest in community child health are being appointed in many parts of the United Kingdom but there are few training posts or programmes for this specialty. A training programme for senior registrars in the northern region that three doctors have completed and in which six doctors are currently engaged is presented.

Registrars' and senior registrars' perceptions of their audit activities.

OBJECTIVES To ascertain the level and quality of audit activity among junior doctors, their attitudes to audit, and their views on its educational value. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey in April 1991. SETTING Yorkshire region. SUBJECTS All 610 registrars and senior registrars recorded as employed in the region. MAIN MEASURES Grade, current specialty, details of last audit participate...

Smoking and mental health: do we have adequate insight?

Spiritual dimension of mental health: do we have adequate insight?

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The new consultant contract and women senior registrars.

If the profession regards the pricing as satisfactory the new consultant contractl is likely to be implemented. The basis of the contract is a "standard" commitment of 10 notional halfdays (NHDs) a week. These would comprise eight clinical sessions, one session to take account of continuing commitment to patient care outside normal working hours, and one to cover administrative duties. Provisio...