How to appoint a senior house officer.

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...

Communication skills training for emergency department senior house officers--a qualitative study.

OBJECTIVE To identify common weaknesses in senior house officer-patient consultation skills, and evaluate direct observation with feedback and negotiation of educational contracts, as a teaching tool in an emergency department setting. METHOD Common weaknesses were identified through review of feedback charts by three trained observers. Alteration in clinical and learning behaviour, as well a...

Training the senior house officer: experience within a dermatology unit.

Senior house officer posts in community paediatrics--an introduction to child health.

John Dacre

On 30th December, 1944, the death occurred of Dr. John Dacre, who retired some years ago after being for many years a well-knoAvn practitioner in Clifton. ^ Dr. Dacre qualified in 1882, and in 1883 came to Bristol from Leeds Infirmary, where he had held the post of Assistant House Surgeon. In November of the same year he was elected Assistant Resident Medical Officer and Pathologist at Bristol ...