Medical Resident Working Hours

Duty Hours and Patient Safety | PSNet

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In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented rules limiting work hours for all residents, with the key components being that residents should work no more than 80 hours per week or 24 consecutive hours on duty, should not be "on-call" more than every third … See more

Medical resident work hours - Wikipedia

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Opinion: Keep Limits Intact On Medical Residents' Work Hours

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/10/721461765/opinion-keep-limits-intact-on-medical-residents-work-hours

Sixty-three internal medicine residency programs participated in the latest study. Half of the programs adhered to limits on …

Physicians rank residency work-life balance by specialty

https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-residents/medical-resident-wellness/physicians-rank-residency-work-life-balance-specialty

To capture information on work-life balance in different specialties, Doximity asked physicians to rate residency programs based on “work hours: tolerability of shift …

Study says limits on residency work hours didn't affect …

https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/11/medical-residency-hour-limits-new-doctors/

They compared the outcomes for patients of two groups of physicians: those trained before 2003, when the typical work week was …

Is an 80-Hour Workweek Enough to Train a Doctor?

https://hbr.org/2019/07/is-an-80-hour-workweek-enough-to-train-a-doctor

We found that newly independent doctors who trained in a period where their residency work hours routinely reached 90 to 100 hours per week had no better patient outcomes, despite the...

Well-Being and Work Hour Requirements - ACGME

https://www.acgme.org/newsroom/2019/1/well-being-and-work-hour-requirements/

“ Programs that regularly schedule residents to work 80 hours per week and still permit residents/fellows to remain beyond their scheduled work period are likely to exceed the …

Medical Residents Work Long Hours Despite Rules - NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/12/04/166477987/medical-residents-work-long-hours-despite-rules

And the residents she supervises aren't allowed to work indefinitely long shifts. Rules implemented nationally in 2003, and tightened last year, put a hard cap on …

Resident hours per specialty : r/Residency - reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Residency/comments/ijw8h3/resident_hours_per_specialty/

PGY3 outpatient: 40 hours (8-12am, one hour lunch, then 1-5pm) + call (heavier, 24 hour calls) = 55-60 hours PGY4 all outpatient: 30-40 hours (no call other than 1-2 weeks of …

Why So Many Young Doctors Work Such Awful Hours …

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/doctors-long-hours-schedules/516639/

Residents in America are expected to spend up to 80 hours a week in the hospital and endure single shifts that routinely last up to 28 hours—with such workdays required about four times a...