REGISTRARS AND MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

Neonatal transfers by advanced neonatal nurse practitioners and paediatric registrars.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and practicality of using advanced neonatal nurse practitioners (ANNPs) to lead acute neonatal transfers. DESIGN Comparison of transport times, transport interventions, and physiological variables, covering the first four complete years of operating a transport service that uses ANNPs and specialist paediatric registrars (SpRs) interchangeably. SETTING Terti...

Outcomes of assessments of registrars in the medical specialties.

The Records of In-training Assessment (RITAs) of all registrars in the medical specialties in the UK were analysed in three successive years, specialty by specialty, and compared with the average outcome for registrars in all disciplines over the same three-year period. Over 97% of medical registrars were assessed as satisfactory, 1.5% needed targeted training and 1.0% were graded unsatisfactor...

Registrars' and senior registrars' perceptions of their audit activities.

OBJECTIVES To ascertain the level and quality of audit activity among junior doctors, their attitudes to audit, and their views on its educational value. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey in April 1991. SETTING Yorkshire region. SUBJECTS All 610 registrars and senior registrars recorded as employed in the region. MAIN MEASURES Grade, current specialty, details of last audit participate...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners

tartar but the latter in the first place is purely a deposit of lime salts from saliva. On pp. 56 and 57 he states that the carbohydrate eating Indians are freer from caries than meat-eating Europeans. This may be true, but it is not the meat portion of European diet that causes caries, but the various other patent and manufactured foods that they eat. On the other hand the tremendous prevalenc...

Dental Surgery for Medical Practitioners