Residentsʼ hours and supervision

New ACGME rules for supervision and duty hours: resident commentary.

the recently approved Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Requirements including new Standards for Resident Supervision and Duty Hours will take effect July, 2011. These new requirements revise the initial regulations implemented by the ACGME in 2003 and respond in part to recommendations set forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2008. The changes a...

Resident supervision and hours. Recommendations of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Implementing the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations on resident physician work hours, supervision, and safety

Long working hours and sleep deprivation have been a facet of physician training in the US since the advent of the modern residency system. However, the scientific evidence linking fatigue with deficits in human performance, accidents and errors in industries from aeronautics to medicine, nuclear power, and transportation has mounted over the last 40 years. This evidence has also spawned regula...

Student supervision and co-supervision

Supervision of Supervision

At the very beginning of working with the group as a supervisor – the dynamics of which I will analyse more thoroughly in the section Personal Experience, group members were discussing their personal experience of the supervisee’s position, their past, present and anticipated relationship with the supervisor and their experience of the supervision of the supervisor. Although they broached many ...