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The educational value of being a house surgeon
Author(s) -
GLEDHILL T.,
McDERMOTT E.,
CLARK C. G.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1985.tb01326.x
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , service (business) , medicine , medical education , pre registration , motion (physics) , psychology , computer science , business , artificial intelligence , marketing , machine learning
Summary. A time and motion study has been performed with four house surgeons. The results suggest that modern pre‐registration housemen spend over 75% of their time in a hospital service role. There is only a small amount of supervised teaching in what is regarded as an educational post.