Starting date of house officer posts

Senior house officer withdrawals from hospital posts: a questionnaire survey.

OBJECTIVES To assess the nature and number of unexpected withdrawal by senior house officers (SHOs) after acceptance of a hospital post at interview, and to investigate the reasons and possible solutions. DESIGN Postal questionnaire based study. SUBJECTS Medical staffing departments, accident and emergency (A&E) consultants, and withdrawing SHOs in England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Unexpecte...

The teaching house officer.

Although medical students on clinical ward rotations receive a large part of their education from house officers, very often house officers themselves have had little formal preparation as teachers. Because students and teachers work closely together under special conditions, unique educational situations are created where much more than factual information is conveyed. Although some house offi...

Senior house officer posts in community paediatrics--an introduction to child health.

The educational component of senior house officer posts: differences in the perceptions of consultants and junior doctors.

The aims of this study were to elicit general practitioner (GP) trainee's perceptions of the educational structure of their hospital posts, to compare them with those of consultants who had GP trainees as senior house officers (SHOs) in their departments and to examine the use of educational objectives in the hospital component of vocational training for general practice. A confidential postal ...

Infectious Disease for the House Officer

perimental results. Its content will be of interest to anyone interested in the basic aspects of carcinogenesis. While the clinical importance of these concepts is clear and the human malignancies which provide the impetus for such basic research are referred to in the text, the volume falls short for the clinician in lacking chapters devoted to carcinogenesis from the perspective of the result...