Senior house officer withdrawals from hospital posts: a questionnaire survey.

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...

Counselling needs and experience of junior hospital doctors.

A sample of 106 senior house officers who had graduated from Nottingham University in 1987 was surveyed about their experience of and need for careers guidance, performance appraisal, and stress counselling. Of the 80 who replied, a quarter had received no careers guidance and a quarter no feedback about their work performance. Many reported having had difficulties in their post, but few had re...

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

The educational component of senior house officer posts: differences in the perceptions of consultants and junior doctors.

The aims of this study were to elicit general practitioner (GP) trainee's perceptions of the educational structure of their hospital posts, to compare them with those of consultants who had GP trainees as senior house officers (SHOs) in their departments and to examine the use of educational objectives in the hospital component of vocational training for general practice. A confidential postal ...

Pre-registration and registration of Birmingham graduates 1955-63.

781 men and women graduated in medicine from the University of Birmingham. They have recently been studied in respect of the pre-registration house-officer appointments they held and of the time that elapsed between their graduation and full registration with the General Medical Council. It is thought that the findings may be of some interest, particularly to those engaged in medical education....