Duty Hour Reporting: Conflicting Values in Professionalism

Medical Professionalism: Conflicting Values for Tomorrow’s Doctors

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. BACKGROUND: New values and practices associated with medical professionalism have created an increased interest in the concept. In the United Kingdom, it i...

The Swedish duty hour enigma

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 ...

Negotiating conflicting values in health promotion.

Duty hours as viewed through a professionalism lens

Understanding medical professionalism and its evaluation is essential to ensuring that physicians graduate with the requisite knowledge and skills in this domain. It is important to consider the context in which behaviours occur, along with tensions between competing values and the individual’s approach to resolving such conflicts. However, too much emphasis on behaviours can be misleading, as ...

Organizational interventions in response to duty hour reforms

BACKGROUND Changes in resident duty hours in Europe and North America have had a major impact on the internal organizational dynamics of health care organizations. This paper examines, and assesses the impact of, organizational interventions that were a direct response to these duty hour reforms. METHODS The academic literature was searched through the SCOPUS database using the search terms "...