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What are the responsibilities of a junior doctor?
Duties of a Junior Doctor
- Making notes on the patients’ files in the ward round.
- Following orders from the ward rounds which may include some of the following:
- Clerking (documenting history, examination, and plans on the patient’s file).
- Making drug charts.
- Requesting blood tests.
- Requesting imaging scans.
What do doctors do in their career?
Doctors, or GPs (general practitioners), provide primary and continuing medical care for patients. They diagnose physical and mental illnesses, disorders and injuries, and prescribe medications and treatment to promote or restore good health, taking account of physical, emotional and social factors.
What should a junior doctor wear?
It’s usually comfortable smart shoes, a clean short sleeved shirt and trousers or a dress/skirt – long hair should be tied back. Find out whether it is appropriate to wear scrubs and if so, where you can get these. In some hospitals you can only wear scrubs in certain areas, so find out your hospital policy.
What does it mean to be a junior doctor?
A junior doctor is any medical graduate who is in further training and not yet qualified to practice independently without supervision. You could see a “junior doctor” in A&E, have them diagnose you, or put you under anaesthetic. On top of this, 5,000 of 34,000 GPs were junior doctors in March 2017.
What happens on a junior doctor’s first day fresh out of school?
While the day sounds intense, it is unlikely that a junior doctor’s first day fresh out of medical school will carry this much responsibility. Instead, on their first day, and each time they rotate into a new specialty, junior doctors are supposed to receive an induction.
How long does it take to become a junjunior GP?
Junior doctors first complete a two-year “foundation programme” which gives them their first experience working with patients and medical staff. After this, they complete either “speciality training” in a particular area of medicine, or “general practice training” to become a GP. This can take anywhere from 3 to 8 years.
What is a junjunior Doctor?
Junior doctors are not a small group of young trainees. They make up almost half of all doctors in hospitals in England.