© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2005. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journal.permissions@oupjournals.org
EDITORIAL |
Editorial II: Careers in anaesthesia
Birmingham, UK
* Corresponding author. E-mail: p.hutton.aes@bham.ac.uk
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
For those of us who are within striking distance of retirement, the article in this issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia by Turner and colleagues1 presents welcome information. We both remember the time in the UK when there were not enough applicants for anaesthesia training posts and some Regional Health Authorities did not take up new posts at the old Senior Registrar level because they were afraid that they would not be filled with suitable applicants. Since that time, things have changed substantially for the better, although concern is again being raised that, because there are not enough Senior House Officer (SHO) posts to feed the recent steady expansion in Specialist Registrar (SpR) posts, the choice currently available to SpR appointments committees is sometimes limited.
From the data provided, there appears to be a general trend when assessed at both years 1 and 3 following qualification that anaesthesia is
Read all E-letters![]()
CiteULike
Connotea
Del.icio.us What's this?
E-letters: