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First senior house officer job: goal or hurdle?

To many newly qualified doctors the prospect of applying for their first senior house officer job is daunting and comes at a time when they are concentrating on coping with their pre-registration house jobs. The huge numbers of applicants for each job must be equally daunting to their seniors, who may be faced with 100 or more applications for one or two jobs. We have conducted a survey of grad...

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Occupational Stress and How to Confront It: A Case Study of a Hospital in Shiraz

Background: Although all jobs can be stressful, occupational stress is an important issue in jobs that deal with human health. Evidence indicates that nursing is a stressful occupation. Objective: This research evaluated factors affecting occupational stress and strategies for coping with it. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptiv...

Leaving the lab: career development for developmental biologists.

Let's face it: not all PhD students and postdocs will become lab heads. Every few years, the National Science Foundation surveys doctorate recipients in the USA about their career progression, and their latest published data (collected in 2006) show that only about one quarter of biomedical science PhDs held tenured or tenure-track positions (see Box 1). If graduate and postdoctoral training ar...

A Model for Developing a Job Reopening Protocol in the Conditions of the Covid19 Outbreak

Introduction: The outbreak of coronavirus has led to both economic and medical problems in many developing countries that has created a conflict between subsistence and health, which suggests the need for models to manage this conflict. Method: First, the factors affecting the prevalence of corona virus in the community were extracted via literature review.  These factors have different effect...