My Doctor became a consultant before completing his training and now he won't sit and be taught anymore

Question

In Theme Hospital, I have two doctors and a training room.

One doctor is a Consultant Surgeon and the other is just a doctor.

The consultant was training the Doctor to become a surgeon, however, the doctor became a consultant before finishing his surgeon training (it is stuck at 81%).

Now whenever I put the two consultants in the training room (one Surgeon, one not) one of them starts teaching and the other leaves.

How can I make the new consultant complete his surgeon training?

Asked by Jasarien

Answer

IIRC - Doctors become consultants when their overall skill reaches a certain level. This skill is increased during any training activity in a classroom. The change to a consultant is otherwise unrelated to their training in additional qualifications (i.e. surgeon, researcher or psychiatrist). If they become a consultant part-way through training one of these skills, they will be forever stuck at the level of training they had when they became a consultant. :(

When a consultant is used for training additional skills, they will only train other doctors in the areas in which they are fully qualified. So your consultant with 81% surgeon training will not be able to teach surgery to another doctor.

Therefore it is best to only train doctors as surgeons / researchers / psychiatrists who have a relatively low skill, so that they can gain their qualifications before they become consultants. Once they have gained their qualifications you can use any consultant to raise their overall skill to the level where they become a consultant themselves, so that they can train others.

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My Doctor became a consultant before completing his training and how he won't sit and be taught anymore

Question

In Theme Hospital, I have two doctors and a training room.

One doctor is a Consultant Surgeon and the other is just a doctor.

The consultant was training the Doctor to become a surgeon, however, the doctor became a consultant before finishing his surgeon training (it is stuck at 81%).

Now whenever I put the two consultants in the training room (one Surgeon, one not) one of them starts teaching and the other leaves.

How can I make the new consultant complete his surgeon training?

Asked by Jasarien

Answer

IIRC - Doctors become consultants when their overall skill reaches a certain level. This skill is increased during any training activity in a classroom. The change to a consultant is otherwise unrelated to their training in additional qualifications (i.e. surgeon, researcher or psychiatrist). If they become a consultant part-way through training one of these skills, they will be forever stuck at the level of training they had when they became a consultant. :(

When a consultant is used for training additional skills, they will only train other doctors in the areas in which they are fully qualified. So your consultant with 81% surgeon training will not be able to teach surgery to another doctor.

Therefore it is best to only train doctors as surgeons / researchers / psychiatrists who have a relatively low skill, so that they can gain their qualifications before they become consultants. Once they have gained their qualifications you can use any consultant to raise their overall skill to the level where they become a consultant themselves, so that they can train others.

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Theme hospital end

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I played theme hospital many times, but I have never have the opportunity to finish the game to the end.

What appens when you finish all the levels?

Answer

You get your hospital ratings as usual, then there is a VERY short movie of your doctor being photographed with a cup. At last, credits roll down over a static image.

Not a very rewarding ending.

You can view the Theme Hospital ending movie on Youtube.

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How to mitigate impact of simultaneous staff breaks in Theme Hospital?

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A situation that often happens to me is that I hire a bunch of staff at once in Theme Hospital either at the start of the hospital or during a major expansion, and from that point on, they all go for their staff breaks en masse as their tiredness values are in sync. This devastates the hospital as they leave many rooms vacant, and further staff rush out of their rooms to replace the missing staff, before rushing back to another room after treating just one or two patients, grinding my hospital to a halt.

In some levels I have the spare cash to just keep loads of spare staff hanging around (which causes the game to nag for having staff doing nothing), but in others that is not an option.

How do I prevent or deal with this kind of situation?

Answer

I'm afraid I can only offer the most obvious answer: don't hire them all at once. At the start you can hire some before you start building, and some at just before opening (which will help a little).

The primary benefit of not hiring all at once is that it staggers their breaks, but also has a rather large secondary benefit: Better quality staff. The staff hiring pool refreshes every so often, giving you a better selection.

Your low-quality bulk-buy method may also be why you're suffering with breaks so much; I seem to remember lower quality staff get tired more easily.

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