Exploitation of senior house officers

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...

Senior house officers: the lost tribes.

There are more senior house officers than doctors in any other training grade in Britain but nobody knows what they do in hospitals or has a clear idea what skills they should be learning. Nobody is responsible for them and they suffer from having a poor career structure and inadequate training. Now that there are government initiatives to reduce the hours that junior doctors work and to limit ...

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...

Dental knowledge of accident and emergency senior house officers.

OBJECTIVES To determine the dental knowledge of accident and emergency (A&E) senior house officers (SHOs). METHOD A telephone survey of A&E departments in England with more than 30 000 new attendances per year was conducted between November 1998 and July 1999. The questionnaire covered basic dental knowledge as well as scenarios of some common dental problems encountered in the A&E department...