...Tara Fenwick; Miriam Zukas; Sue Kilminster; Alison Bullock; Fiona Fox; Rebecca Barnes; Natasha Doran; Wendy Hardyman; Duncan Moss; Mark Stacey Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe experiences of transition from medical school to new doctor in the UK and to examine the development...

...Tara Fenwick; Miriam Zukas; Sue Kilminster; Sue Kilminster; Miriam Zukas Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore specific instances of junior doctors' responsibility. Learning is often understood to be a prerequisite for managing responsibility and risk but this paper aims to argue...

...Jian Huang; Henning Salling Olesen; Songge Ma Purpose This paper aims to explore what Chinese doctors have learned in authentic medical practice, what they want to learn, and the dynamics behind their professional learning in working contexts. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses...

...Henning Salling Olesen; Angelique Wildschut Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations underlying the specialisation choices of six female specialist doctors working in Cape Town, South Africa and to investigate whether the specific gender work identity associated...

... and aesthetic judgements in the visual domain. The doctors’ habitual conventions are challenged through the interventions of the artists, leading to a re‐education of the senses through a revitalised clinical imagination. Outcomes include self‐assessed improvement of clinical acumen through systematic review...

... Executive to identify the levels of stress. Concludes that outsourcing to an independent counselling service could prove to be an effective stress management strategy. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Counselling Dentists Doctors Stress The Health & Safety Executive has recently published its...