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Who cares for junior medical officers?
Author(s) -
Brown Mark A,
Hayes Corinne
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb123373.x
Subject(s) - medical education , health care , nursing , medicine , psychology , political science , law
Recent changes in the way that some hospitals are run have created particular problems for junior medical staff. Here we describe a new system of managing such staff, under evaluation at a large Sydney teaching hospital, which seems to be working well and which has been positively appraised by the Postgraduate Medical Council and the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.