Residents call for duty hour reform

Resident duty-hour reform: moving beyond "change for change's sake".

Scheduling in the context of resident duty hour reform

Fuelled by concerns about resident health and patient safety, there is a general trend in many jurisdictions toward limiting the maximum duration of consecutive work to between 14 and 16 hours. The goal of this article is to assist institutions and residency programs to make a smooth transition from the previous 24- to 36-hour call system to this new model. We will first give an overview of the...

16-hour call duty schedules: the Quebec experience

Since 1 July 2012, as a result of a labour arbitration ruling in the province of Quebec and the subsequent agreement negotiated by the Fédération des médecins résidents du Québec, all 3,400 medical residents training in Quebec have been on a 16-hour duty schedule for in-house calls. This is a major change within medical teaching sites, as well as a professional and educational challenge for phy...

Residents claim 24-hour call violates Charter rights.

Making the Case for Investigating Flexibility in Duty Hour Limits for Surgical Residents.

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...