Junior doctors told the BBC about their anxiety on taking up their first senior house officer jobs.

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His first senior-level hire was a chief marketing officer, Jerri DeVard.

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Maryam Banikarim, an NBCUniversal senior vice president and former entrepreneur, became the first chief marketing officer of Gannett Co. at a time when the USA Today publisher's revenues were sinking, mainly due to declining advertising.

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Most recently, he was senior vice president and chief information officer at Disney, where he was the first chief information officer to manage companywide IT.

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Nardelli has also toughened Chrysler's quality standards, making senior engineers responsible and hiring a "chief customer officer"--an industry first--to monitor quality assurance and be an advocate for the buyer.

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However, the BMA is concerned that next year doctors in senior house officer posts will have to compete for places on specialist training programmes with the first batch of graduates from the new foundation programme, and international medical graduates.

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