Teaching Clinical Skills to Preregistration House Oficers

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...

Beyond measure: teaching clinical skills.

I recently visited a retired physician who practiced in Roma, Texas, population 10000. His family has lived and ranched in Roma for 6 generations, well before the border was moved and Roma became part of the United States. As the town's first and only physician for most of his 4-plus decades in practice, Dr Mario Ramirez did it all: deliveries, house calls, minor surgery, and seeing 60 people a...

Qualification and the year as a preregistration house officer.

Qualification as a bachelor of medicine and surgery (MB BS or equivalent) after five or six years is not the end but a beginning. Now at last you can learn all the time by doing, a process which continues throughout life: now you are a medical practitioner and can earn your own living. Examinations are not finished and uncertainties about the future are no longer speculations but realities, but...

A survey of intravenous drug administration by preregistration house officers.

Hours, volume, and type of work of preregistration house officers.

OBJECTIVE To determine the hours, volume, and type of work undertaken by preregistration house officers. DESIGN Continuous observation of 472 hours of work performed by 12 preregistration house officers based in medical wards, using standard procedures for studying work patterns. SETTING A teaching hospital with 340 beds assigned to general medicine and coronary care. SUBJECTS 12 Of the 1...