Articles Tagged ‘medicine residency programs’
Opinion | By December 03, 2007 | By JC, MD | 5 Comments
The 80 Hour Work Week Is Only The Beginning
For those of you who don’t know. The 80 hour work week is a relatively new limitation for resident physicians in training. This rule was put into effect a few years ago to prevent sleep deprivation among physicians in training. The rule was meant to curtail medical errors such as incorrect prescriptions, wrong procedures, or any time of malpractice that is more likely to occur when a physician does not have enough sleep.
Some of us trained in medicine at a time when there were no work hour restrictions. 100 plus hour work weeks were a norm. Read more →
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