Junior doctors are the mainstay of any hospital but when many patients hear the term they fear they are about to be treated by the work experience student.
Training chiefs are trying to find a better name to boost respect for a highly qualified but demoralised group of NHS staff — and they have asked The Times for help.
Readers have been urged to come up with ideas to rebrand a group that spans those fresh out of medical school to doctors with a decade of experience after Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said these staff needed job titles that would give them “the respect they deserve”.
A return to the old names of “senior house officers” and “registrars” is one option, as
