Hospital vocational training Local audits are helpful

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EDITOR, - As a general practitioner, course organiser, and former senior house officer in Wessex, I am keenly aware of the problems in training for senior house officers.1, 2 Paul Little's survey provides an overview of the situation in Wessex but hides the variation among hospitals and posts.1 Since the senior house officers who were questioned were in post it has become regional policy for course organisers in general practice to review hospital vocational training. In Portsmouth we send a questionnaire to all senior house officers on vocational training schemes in the final month of each of their posts. Anecdotal reports about a post may be misleading as they may reflect a poor senior house officer or a poor post. Cumulative data from a series …