Handbooks, learning contracts, and senior house officers: a collaborative enterprise.

Education of senior house officers: current challenges.

Over recent years several factors have impacted upon the education of doctors in training in medicine and other specialties. These factors include the European Working Time Directive and shift patterns of working, increasing service demands, changes in the examination and assessment processes, and clinical governance issues. In addition, over the next few years further changes will take place w...

Senior house officers: the lost tribes.

There are more senior house officers than doctors in any other training grade in Britain but nobody knows what they do in hospitals or has a clear idea what skills they should be learning. Nobody is responsible for them and they suffer from having a poor career structure and inadequate training. Now that there are government initiatives to reduce the hours that junior doctors work and to limit ...

Trauma courses for senior house officers.

Firm foundation for senior house officers

Editor—The editorial by Gallen and Peile signals anything but a firm foundation for training junior doctors. The first foundation year will essentially be an extension of undergraduate training, its doctors allowed only to observe medical practice. And doctors in foundation year 2 will be “career tourists,” spending too little time in each specialty to be able to offer much service in return. M...

Stress and coping in accident and emergency senior house officers.

OBJECTIVES To identify levels of psychological distress in accident and emergency (A&E) senior house officers (SHOs). METHODS Questionnaire survey given to SHOs at training sessions. MEASURES General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Brief COPE. RESULTS Over half of the 37 respondents (51%; 95% CI: 36% to 67%) scored over the threshold for psychological distress on the GHQ. This is consi...