scholarly journals Psychiatry for the General Practitioner Trainee

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 121-122

Should the future GP do a six months' senior house officer job in psychiatry as part of his or her training? This was the central question at a one-day discussion held on 28 May 1980 at the Royal College of General Practitioners in Princes Gate, London, following the publication of the guidelines prepared by a RCPsych/RCGP Liaison Committee (Bulletin, June 1980, p 93) and presented to the conference by Dr Thomas Bewley. As Professor N. Kessel, among others, pointed out, psychiatric hospitals and units stand to gain considerably if they can recruit these doctors to their junior staff. Regular SHO posts are often difficult to fill at present, and GP trainees may be of very good quality. They do not expect to compete up the specialty training ladder, but they will carry part of the work-load. On the other hand, is what the hospital offers what they really need, or can it be made so?

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
JML Williamson ◽  
AG Martin

In 2005 the career path, training and assessment of UK junior doctors was fundamentally altered. The traditional progression from a pre-registered house officer year (immediately after graduation) to a senior house officer (SHO) grade (for a variable number of years) has been streamlined into two foundation years (FYs) and then entry into either a core training (CT) or specialty training (ST) programme. The foundation assessment programme (FAP) has developed a competency-based curriculum for training FYs 1–2 based on the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board's (PMETB's) standards.


Author(s):  
Darin Stephanov

‘What do we really speak of when we speak of the modern ethno-national mindset and where shall we search for its roots?’ This is the central question of a book arguing that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire, which the annual royal birthday and accession-day celebrations constituted, had multiple, far-reaching, and largely unexplored consequences. On the one hand, it brought ordinary subjects into symbolic contact with the monarch and forged lasting vertical ties of loyalty to him, irrespective of language, location, creed or class. On the other hand, the rounds of royal celebration played a key role in the creation of new types of horizontal ties and ethnic group consciousness that crystallized into national movements, and, after the empire’s demise, national monarchies. The book discusses the themes of public space/sphere, the Tanzimat reforms, millet, modernity, nationalism, governmentality, and the modern state, among others. It offers a new, thirteen-point model of modern belonging based on the concept of ruler visibility.


2010 ◽  
Vol os17 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E Gallagher ◽  
Timothy J Bates ◽  
Harpoonam Kalsi ◽  
Aneesha Shah ◽  
Yon Jon Wang ◽  
...  

Aims To investigate the motivations for, and perceived benefits of, undertaking senior house officer (SHO) posts, and to explore the career pathways of those who do, examining trends in successive cohorts. Method Postal cross-sectional questionnaire survey of all dental and maxillofacial SHOs (DF2s) who had worked for two South London hospitals within the previous nine years (n=137). Respondents were grouped into three cohorts to enable responses to be examined in relation to respondents’ entry to their first SHO post. Results There were responses from 83 (61%) potential participants. The most frequent motivation for carrying out SHO posts from 79 (95%) of the respondents was the desire to ‘learn from experienced clinicians’. The most common perceived benefit reported by those who had completed posts at the time of the survey was ‘an improved understanding of the role of the hospital dental service’ from 68 (97%) of those who answered this question. Difficulty in securing a job in general dental practice was not reported as a notable motivating factor, either before or after the implementation of the new dental contract. ‘Fulfil approved training post requirements for postgraduate examinations’ reduced as a motivator from 28 (88%) for the earlier cohort of SHOs to nine (36%) for the more recent cohort. Fifty-four of 78 (69%) respondents declared a definite plan to seek admission to the General Dental Council Specialist Lists in future, 24 (83%) in the first cohort, compared with 11 (46%) in the last ( P=0.05). Of the males, 13 (52%) were significantly more likely to report that they were currently working in general practice compared with 15 (27%) females ( P=0.028). Conclusion The findings suggest that multiple benefits are identified from undertaking SHO posts. However, some of the motivations for undertaking SHO posts may have changed over the nine-year period investigated. Possible influences are discussed. This paper highlights the perceived benefits of junior training posts at a time of significant transition within the profession.


2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
M Roberts ◽  
K McHardy ◽  
J Wakeling ◽  
E Dalgetty ◽  
A Cadzow ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-292
Author(s):  
Patrick Eichholz

Out of the wreckage of the First World War, classicism and dadaism charted two opposing paths forward. While one movement sought to overturn the institutions complicit in prolonging the war, the other sought to buttress these same institutions as a safeguard against the chaos of modern life. This essay studies the peculiar convergence of these contradictory movements in The Waste Land. The article provides a full account of Eliot’s postwar engagement with dadaism and classicism before examining the influence of each movement on The Waste Land. Walter Benjamin’s theory of baroque allegory will be introduced in the end to address the article’s central question: How can any one poem be both classicist and dadaist at the same time?


2006 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
AK Arya ◽  
KP Gibbin

The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) has led to a reduction in the number of hours that a junior doctor is allowed to work. The Hospital at Night project aims to reduce juniors' presence at night through more efficient working. Otolaryngology has been considered to be one of the surgical specialties in which generic junior doctors covering more than one specialty could effectively function. The hope is to reduce junior doctors' hours sufficiently without compromising their training or patient safety.


2002 ◽  
Vol 116 (10) ◽  
pp. 839-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ranta ◽  
S. S. M. Hussain ◽  
Q. Gardiner

Knowledge of the factors that inform the career choice of medical students may help plan the workforce for medical specialities. To determine which factors inform the career choice of medical students we carried out a survey of medical students at the start of their educational block in Otolaryngology. Of 202 questionnaires handed out 169 were returned (84 per cent). Students were asked to rank factors according to their importance in their career choice. The single most important factor was career progression. Other factors include on-call commitment, teachers as role models, and the interest for a particular subject. At the present time progression from senior house officer grade to specialist registrar grade in Otolaryngology is delayed. If this issue is not addressed the influx of applicants into Otolaryngology training programmes will be reduced, limiting the pool from which candidates can be chosen for a career in Otolaryngology.


2010 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-163
Author(s):  
Sean A. Spence

It is difficult, if not impossible, to systematically identify ten books that have been influential over a professional lifetime, not least since many have probably exerted their influence in long-forgotten ways: part of that semantic sediment laid down by protracted reading (and conversation). However, I do know that George Orwell was the first serious writer whom I read ‘of my own free will’ and I know that I would not wish to be without the works of Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Don DeLillo, Graham Greene, Henning Mankell or W.G. Sebald. I can remember that books on Buddhism sustained me through senior house officer jobs in a number of medical specialties (trying to focus, single-mindedly, on the task in hand rather than my tiredness or distraction), and I suspect that the metaphors of my thought and speech had already been much influenced by exposure to the Bible. Here, I focus on those books that have informed the way I think about psychiatry right now and how it might be practised.


1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (14) ◽  
pp. 53-54

Doctors may need to identify an unknown treatment for several reasons: After an acute overdose the drug must be rapidly identified without waiting for time-consuming analysis. In hospital this emergency is not rare.Liaison between the general practitioner and hospital is often imperfect and either party may be unclear about the treatment the patient is receiving from the other. This is much commoner than overdosage.Most general practitioners at some time participate in an arrangement that involves a deputy. One doctor may then see a colleague’s patient without immediate access to the record card. Uncertainty about treatment in such circumstances is experienced by every general practitioner and many consultants seeing patients referred to them.Many patients take more than one kind of preparation: if one is to be changed, or its dosage altered, the patient must be certain which is the one affected.


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