Remaking surgical socialization: Work hour restrictions, rites of passage, and occupational identity

Effect of work hour restrictions on fellows.

present for days, or alternatively that patients who have delays in receiving antibiotics are substantially different with respect to important comorbid illnesses. While administering antibiotics promptly is desirable, the real key to improving outcomes lies in understanding why patients who have a delay in antibiotic therapy are more likely to die. Although an enforceable time limit satisfies ...

Dance Dance Education and Rites of Passage

The experience of a successful adolescent learner will be described from the student’s perspective about learning the video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) through selected passages from a phenomenological interview. The question driving this investigation is, “Why did she sustain engagement in learning?” The importance of this question came out of the need for background on how to create an ...

Burnout and internal medicine resident work-hour restrictions.

BACKGROUND Burnout is very common in internal medicine residents. Effective July 2003, all residents were restricted to work less than an average of 80 hours per week and no more than 30 hours of continuous duty for patient care and educational obligations. We evaluated rates of burnout in internal medicine residents before and after the implementation of the new work-hour restriction. METHOD...

How the ACGME Work-Hour Restrictions Have Affected Orthopedic Residents.

Callings and work engagement: moderated mediation model of work meaningfulness, occupational identity, and occupational self-efficacy.

Scholarly interest in callings is growing, but researchers' understanding of how and when callings relate to career outcomes is incomplete. The present study investigated the possibility that the relationship of calling to work engagement is mediated by work meaningfulness, occupational identity, and occupational self-efficacy--and that this mediation depends on the degree of perceived person-j...