Junior doctor help

Thread Starter Junior doctor help Follow 5 hours ago 5h ago Quote: Originally Posted by Casie1234 For a normal ward day shift how many SHO's are likely to be on duty? or is there just one; It depends and varies - according to hospital, specialty, ward and the times of the week!! Quote: Also, as a SHO do you only work under one consultant and therefore only tend to the patients under that consultant? or do you work under many consultants Again it varies!! Now for neurology in hospital 1 that I work - we have 2 SHOs covering 28 patients. However sometimes one goes on annual leave / study leave / on-calls and there is only one. If next door (stroke medicine) can spare then the F1 comes and helps. They work for all the consultants. In hospital 2 (again for neurology) - we have a pool of 6 junior doctors (2x F1s, 2x F2s, 2x CMTs) who share between 2 wards of...
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