Do doctors with PG qualification have a better chance of securing a job?
Traditionally, SHO recruitments take place in February and August each year. This is when most SHOs would have finished their rotation, got through their Primary Exams and would be moving on to SpR posts. Since the majority of the workforce lost consists of experienced candidates, District General Hospitals and even Teaching Hospitals tend to replace them mostly with experienced candidates. The experience is preferably in the UK (especially those who are already doing on calls) but the next best would be experience obtained overseas, so that they can quickly get through their competency based assessment (which can be 1-2 weeks to 1 month, depending on the candidate) and start doing on calls Most DGHs can cope with only one novice at a time. This is because the novice needs 100% supervision on an average for 3 months and this further stretches an overstretched system. So having a PG qualification and experience shoud theoretically be an advantage, at least in statistical terms. However,
