Part-time senior registrar posts: Wessex reviewed.
A Government memorandum guided regional boards on how to set up schemes for re-employment of women doctors to ensure that they could train part-time in the hospital service with the aim of gaining consultant posts. Of the 14 senior registrars who have held part-time contracts in Wessex during the past 5 years, 2 are now full-time consultants and 8 have completed their higher qualifications. A high standard of qualification and training can be achieved on a part-time basis but subsequent employment prospects need to be more flexible: regional health authorities should create more part-time consultant posts.
D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004739:England; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D010822:Physicians, Women; D013997:Time Factors