Impact of short-term locum doctor employments on the transition from medical student to residency.

Introduction: The transition from medical student to resident is often stressful and challenging. Medical graduates' sense of preparedness for residency increases as they spend more time in the clinic. In Denmark, temporary short-term locum doctor employment (LDE) may be an opportunity to increase preparedness for future residency and ease the expected and experienced stress of the transition.

[The quality of diagnosis and procedure coding in Orthopaedic surgery Northern Jutland].

Introduction: When the aim is for high quality, efficiency and a balanced allocation of resources in health services, there is a constant demand for optimisation of the quality of registration regarding diagnosis, treatment and DRG-values (DRG = Diagnosis Related Groups). Since the mid-nineties the DRG-system has been used to shed light on productivity in Danish hospitals. This study investigates the quality of registrations after the introduction of an organization for registrations in the county of Northern Jutland.