Talk:Pre-registration house officer

Extended Pre-registration Period
The pay scheme for pre-registration House Officers in the National Health Services of the UK used to allow for annual progression over three years. More than two six-month posts might be required if one was not completed satisfactorily, or the holder had to leave due to illness or pregnancy. A few non-UK graduates were trapped in this way at the pre-registration stage when the regulations changed, so that a new written, oral and clinical examination was required before they could progress to full registration, though it had not been required when they were granted provisional registration. NRPanikker (talk) 11:10, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Post-registration House Officer
The National Health Services of the UK used to have a small number of post-registration house officer posts. These had lower pay than the otherwise identical senior house officer posts, and were to be found in famous teaching hospitals where there was no shortage of applicants: e.g. the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. However, if the doctor had already held a senior house officer post they remained on that pay scale. NRPanikker (talk) 11:20, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

When did it start?
At present the main article states that pre-registration house officers were the lowest grade of medical life at the commencement of the National Health Service in 1948. I am sure that "provisional registration" was introduced to the UK by the Medical Act of 1956, but it may have taken a year or so to be implemented.

Making pre-registration appointments compulsory meant more jobs had to be created to accommodate the whole output of the medical schools, minus the number who emigrated immediately.

Before that, new graduates made a single payment to be registered for life soon after graduation, and house officer appointments were not compulsory: but without having held one or two their options were more limited.

House Officers as such were to be found in hospitals for much of the nineteenth century, and possibly earlier, in European countries. Americans tend to believe that they, and residency training, were invented by William Osler. NRPanikker (talk) 15:44, 17 May 2019 (UTC)