A questionnaire survey of senior house officers/registrars response to their training at University College Hospital, Ibadan

Abstract

This study evaluated the responses of randomly selected 54 senior house officers (SHO)/registrars to questions on their training at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Previous studies have identified excess workload, poor supervision and inadequate hours of formal educations as areas deserving increased attention. The aim of this study is to assess the residents perception of their training and to offer recommendations where necessary. Many residents felt they are often called to attend to problems beyond their experiences and competence. As many as 66.7% as at 3 months and above into training, have not had the opportunity to discuss their training progress with their supervising consultants. The study therefore calls for more hours of formal teaching and consultants' regular evaluation of residents training. A regular conduct of auditing of training programmes is recommended.