A new era for resident duty hours in surgery calls for greater emphasis on resident wellness

A new era for resident duty hours in surgery calls for greater emphasis on resident wellness.

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...

Limitation of duty hour regulations for pediatric resident wellness

Duty hour regulations have been placed in residency programs to address mental health concerns and to improve wellness. Here, we elucidate the prevalence of depressive symptoms after implementing an overnight call shift system and the factors associated with burnout or depression among residents.A sequential exploratory mixed methods study was conducted in a tertiary care pediatric and perinata...

Delinking resident duty hours from patient safety

Patient safety is a powerful motivating force for change in modern medicine, and is often cited as a rationale for reducing resident duty hours. However, current data suggest that resident duty hours are not significantly linked to important patient outcomes. We performed a narrative review and identified four potential explanations for these findings. First, we question the relevance of reside...

Resident duty hours: past, present, and future

Background Postgraduate medical education is founded on a tradition of service and education and is grounded in the realities of the twenty-first century. The very nature of the postgraduate enterprise is evolving in front of us all, and this is having a wide-ranging impact in a varziety of areas. At stake is both the delivery of quality patient care and the preparation of the next generation o...