Who cares for junior medical officers?
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.
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Department of Junior Medical Officers Management, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW. jmo@bigpond.com
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