Pay of hospital junior staff.

Junior Staff and Postgraduate Education in a District Hospital.

THERE HAS been a great increase in postgraduate educational activity in this country, as well as in America, over the past few years. In this country postgraduate educational programmes are being organised in a number of hospitals, and the district hospitals often lead university hospitals in this field. This paper seeks to outline and discuss the programme of one district hospital, with specia...

Privilege Leave and Staff Pay

Write a departmental handbook for junior staff.

Many medical senior house officer rotations now change every four months. Thus senior house officers arrive on a new unit expected to manage complicated cases, handle specialist clinics, and explain details to patients when they have previously seen such problems only briefly as students. They generally rely on help and answers to their questions from middle grade staff and nurses. The pace of ...

Attitudes of junior medical staff to requesting permission for autopsy.

The attitudes of junior medical staff in a university teaching hospital to requesting postmortem examination were assessed. Following completion of 100 death certificates, autopsy was sought in only 28 cases (and refused in 18). The majority of staff were unaware of the reported benefits of autopsy, despite their inclusion in the local medical handbook and had received no training in how to see...

Hospital Medical Staff Privileges