New starting dates for house officers

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...

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...

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...

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...