RATING PEDIATRIC HOUSE OFFICER PERFORMANCE

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...

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...

Emergency Psychiatry for the House Officer

The early part focuses on differentiating organic brain disease from psychoses, the importance of reversable brain disease in the elderly and the part the emergency physician has in making this diagnosis. The authors must be commended for the amount of space given to these topics in such a short book. Other points stressed in this part of the book are, not to label patients with behavioural pro...

How to appoint a senior house officer.

Senior house officer in sexual health.

The Garden Clinic, Slough Slough, along the M4 corridor, west of London, UK, is a very diverse area. It has high pockets of deprivation and a large mix of ethnic diversity including many Africans, Caribbeans, Asians and an increasing Eastern European population. This creates many complexities, in particular language and cultural issues. The Garden Clinic offers a holistic approach to sexual hea...