New deal shifts may increase house officers' stress

New house-officers' views on unprofessional behaviour.

AIM To determine the views of new house officers (HO) on professionalism and unprofessional behaviour following dismissal in January 2007 of a HO who was caught video-taping nurses in the shower. METHODS An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was administered during new house officers' orientation. Using a Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree), HO were asked to rank...

Implementing New Regulation Promotes Health but May Increase Inequality

Source of stress in women junior house officers.

OBJECTIVE To determine the causes of stress in women doctors and relate these to levels of depression. DESIGN Questionnaire study. SUBJECTS Of 92 women doctors who had graduated from the universities of Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield in 1986 and had been working as junior house officers for eight months 70 (76%) returned completed questionnaires. MAIN RESULTS Mean score on the general h...

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...

Appointment of preregistration house officers.

A new programme to try and match the preferences of students and consultants in preregistration appointments has been designed after a survey of student opinion. It is based on five main principles: a standardized change-over date for posts; holding only one post in a teaching hospital; separate application for house physician and house surgeon appointments; application six months before the po...