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...

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 ...

Hospital Medical Staff Privileges

Data protection among junior medical staff: a questionnaire study.

OBJECTIVE There have been numerous reports of loss of confidential information amongst UK public agencies. The aim of the study was to examine current standards of practice and knowledge of junior medical staff with respect to management of patient identifiable information. METHODS An anonymous multiple choice questionnaire was completed by 50 junior medical staff in each of 2 separate distri...

Teaching junior staff about caring for handicapped children.

During the past 10 years the care of children with handicaps has assumed an increasingly important role in paediatric practice. This is reflected in the recent expansion and reorganisation of the community child health services and of training programmes and professional examinations. Caring for families who have a handicapped child entails a delicately balanced partnership between parent, chil...