resident medical officer working conditions in new zealand results of a recent survey aims to survey resident medical officers rmos and senior medical officers smos working at auckland district health board adhb on various aspects of rmoworking conditions and to trial the use of electronic keypad responders for this purposemethods in april 2004 the physicians grand round at adhb was used as a forum to conduct a survey on rmo working conditions in new zealand results were collected anonymously using electronic keypad responders and recorded in a spreadsheet to allow analysis and comparison of the two professional groupsresults 27 rmos and 32 smos attended and participated in the survey answering 11 questions responses showed significant differences between the two groups in 7 of the 11 questions asked in addition both groups favoured changes to the status quo on a significant number of issuesconclusions rmos and smos in new zealand have differing opinions regarding the working conditions of rmos this study supports the need for wider scale national discussion of these issues and the development of appropriate strategies to address these differences and their implications