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Residency training at a crossroads: duty-hour standards 2010.
In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented a single duty-hour standard nationwide. The evidence to date suggests that this neither improved nor worsened patient outcomes. In June 2010, the ACGME proposed a new set of duty-hour standards for implementation in July 2011. The main disadvantage of this approach is that there is no ability to determine whet...
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BACKGROUND The Swedish resident duty hour limit is regulated by Swedish and European legal frameworks. With a maximum average of 40 working hours per week, the Swedish duty hour regulation is one of the most restrictive in the world. At the same time, the effects of resident duty hour limits have been neither debated nor researched in the Swedish context. As a result, little is known about the ...
متن کاملResident perspectives on duty hour limits and attributes of their learning environment
BACKGROUND Residents are stakeholders in the debate surrounding duty hour restrictions, yet few studies have assessed their perspective on their programs' efforts to comply with them. OBJECTIVES This paper explores learners' perceptions of the attributes of their programs in relation to duty hour compliance, and looks for evidence whether residents view duty hour limits as important to patien...
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Restrictions on the number of hours that resident physicians canworkcontinue to ignite tremendouscontroversy among stakeholders. The debate predominantly concernswhether restrictionsenhanceorendangerpatientsafetyandresidenteducation.Thepurported benefits of duty hour limits are fairly evident: wellrested residents will be less prone to error and burnout, and they will have more time to study th...
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10.1056/nejmp1010613 nejm.org 1 Recognizing societal demands for improved patient safety, the task force that developed the standards has embraced stricter dutyhour limits and greater supervision for trainees in the first postgraduate year (PGY-1). The new standards reflect many of the recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in a 2008 report1 but differ from them on one critical...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.14.1487