OBJECTIVES To assess the nature and number of unexpected withdrawal by senior house officers (SHOs) after acceptance of a hospital post at interview, and to investigate the reasons and possible solutions. DESIGN Postal questionnaire based study. SUBJECTS Medical staffing departments, accident and emergency (A&E) consultants, and withdrawing SHOs in England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Unexpecte...

A prospective study of the long-term validity of student assessment of paediatric teaching began during the period 1968--70. The students gave scores to the different parts of the course in a standard questionnaire. Between 6 and 8 years later the same students were given the same questionnaire to complete. 76 of the original 92 students responded. By this time most of them were either princip...

Anyone who has spent time in an American hospital must have noticed the abundance of free food. Whether breakfast at morning Grand Rounds, a drug representative teaching conference, or a potluck meal in the nursing lounge, free food is ubiquitous. Over the span of 2 decades, much work has been done in the bourgeoning fi eld of hospital medicine, but this subject has been starved of attention. I...

blood and body fluid exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. therefore, we conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of sfax. we have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health...