PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - L F Smith
TI  - A pilot study of community-based training of hospital obstetric senior house officers.
DP  - 1999 Feb 01
TA  - British Journal of General Practice
PG  - 129--130
VI  - 49
IP  - 439
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/49/439/129.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/49/439/129.full
SO  - Br J Gen Pract1999 Feb 01; 49
AB  - Most senior house officer (SHOs) posts have little relevance to general practice. This problem was addressed in a pilot community teaching placement, of up to one session per week over four to six months that was set up to learn community-based obstetrics from primary health care teams. The nine participating SHOs were interviewed; qualitative analysis revealed seven themes that were important to the SHOs that should help guide further community-based teaching. Such sessional release for improving the practice-based component of vocational training merits evaluation in a larger study.