Medical Resident Duty Hours

Duty Hours and Patient Safety | PSNet

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In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented rules limiting work hours for all residents, with the key components being that residents should work no more than 80 hours per week or 24 consecutive hours on duty, should not be "on-call" more than every third … See more

Background and Overview - Resident Duty …

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Until the recent duty hour reforms, resident work schedules frequently totaled 90 hours or more per week, made up of …

Medical resident work hours - Wikipedia

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Duty Hours & Record Keeping - General Surgery …

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Duty hours must be limited to 80 hours per week, averaged over a four-week period, inclusive of all patient care activities, inclusive of all in house clinical and educational …

Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations

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Duty hours. Applied to medical residents, this means all time spent in clinical and academic activities related to the …

Policy on Resident Duty Hours - National Institutes of Health

https://ethics.od.nih.gov/sites/default/files/topics/Resident-Duty-Hours.pdf

Duty hours will be constructed as follows: 1. Duty hours are limited to 80 hours per week, averaged over a four-week period, inclusive of all in-house call activities and all time …

Resident Duty Hours EMRA - Emergency …

https://www.emra.org/emresident/article/resident-duty-hours/

The ACGME's more restrictive 2011 RDH rules were developed in the shadow of the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report entitled Resident Duty Hours: …

Libby Zion Law - Wikipedia

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The Bell Commission recommendations that attending physicians should be present at all times and limiting residents to 80 hours a week and 24 hours at a time were adopted by …

The Importance of Fostering Ownership during Medical …

https://ihpl.llu.edu/blog/importance-fostering-ownership-during-medical-training

While there have been many efforts to reduce resident fatigue and increase patient safety by limiting duty hours, less attention has been given to determining the levels of …

Resident duty hours: the rest of the story - National …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17411536/

This article presents the complex set of considerations and influences that resulted in the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education' s (ACGME) development of rules …