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The allocation of house officer posts: a UK survey
Author(s) -
GILLARD J. H.,
DENT T. H. S.
Publication year - 1988
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.1365-2923.1988.tb00763.x
Subject(s) - house officer , officer , matching (statistics) , psychology , medical school , medical education , process (computing) , family medicine , medicine , political science , computer science , law , pathology , operating system
Summary. The methods of allocation of house officer posts at British medical schools were investigated by postal questionnaire. Three categories were found: a free market, a matching process between student and consultant preferences, and the use of in‐course assessments, the matching process being the most popular. Many medical schools had changed their method of house officer allocation since 1969, but often with unsatisfactory results.