INTRODUCTION Many doctors are leaving Nepal to work abroad. To understand this problem better, we decided to study the attitude and plans of young doctors and medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at Kathmandu Medical College involving 65 first year medical students, 100 interns and 100 house officers. The data collected was entered in Microsoft exce...

OBJECTIVE To measure changes in the training and workload of preregistration house officers over four years. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SETTING The Thames health regions. PARTICIPANTS 1049 preregistration house officers. RESULTS Response rate was 69% (725 replies). The proportion of house officers officially on duty > 83 hours a week fell from at least 42% to 21%, and the proportion o...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers’ intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that more effective cooperation between units, a higher trust in the work partner (social capital), a higher ...

Studies on animals and human subjects have proposed that urban pollutants may cause alterations of cortisol levels. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether police officers exposed to urban pollutants and possible psycho-social stressors could be at risk for alterations on plasma cortisol levels compared to a control group. Plasma cortisol levels were determined in 302 police officers with ...

a decade ago, sub-saharan africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by only 4% of the global health workforce. the chronic shortage of medical doctors has led other health professionals especially nurses to perform the role of healthcare providers. these health workers have been variously named clinical officers, health officers, physician assistants, nurse practition...

An annual survey of the educational supervision of pre-registration house officers has been carried out since 1987 by the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical Education and the Queen's University of Belfast. Educational supervision was considered by house officers to be unsatisfactory in 27% of medical posts and 52% of surgical posts. Regular teaching was provided at least weekly i...

The use of videoconferencing as a teaching modality in dermatology is not widespread. The objectives of this study were to introduce the videoconferencing format to dermatology journal clubs and to determine its effects on the training and satisfaction of house officers (residents). Ten dermatology house officers participated in this study. They were being trained at three university hospitals ...

BACKGROUND Previous research has examined how age and health can shape workability (WA). This study seeks to explore how a lack of WA (inability) may affect the health of the employee. AIMS To explore the effects of work inability on mental wellbeing among therapeutic prison officers. METHODS An anonymous cross-sectional study of prison officers conducted in a category B English prison usin...

Training of Mental Welfare Officers for many years there has been disquiet over the anomalous position of social workers in the Mental Health Services, and the Mackintosh Committee's Report published in 1951, recommended not only that there should be more psychiatric social workers but that a large number of trained mental welfare officers were also required. These Officers employed by Local He...

Police work is one of the most stressful occupations in the world due to their enormous stresses, uncertainty in work, lack of support from the superior, etc. They were suffering from different types of physical and mental disorders. But only a few studies were carried out in India. The present study was conducted to evaluate the cardiovascular status of police officers working in different pol...