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Publication"Interns' Compliance With Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Work-Hours Limits", JAMA
September 5, 2006
Study Finds Interns Nationwide Non-Compliant with Work-Hour Limits for Medical Interns
(Landrigan CP, Barger LK, Cade BE, Ayas NT, Czeisler CA. Interns' Compliance with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Work-Hour Limits. JAMA 2006).
84% of interns nationwide reported work hours in violation of the new professionally-mandated ACGME rules. These rules continue to allow shifts of up to 30 hours in a row, yet even these permissive limits are routinely exceeded.
Read the Harvard Medical School Press Release.
Related links
JAMA: Extended Work Duration and the Risk of Self-reported Percutaneous Injuries
Harvard Gazette: Interns continue to work overly long shifts
(Landrigan CP, Barger LK, Cade BE, Ayas NT, Czeisler CA. Interns' Compliance with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Work-Hour Limits. JAMA 2006).
Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH (left) and Charles A. Czeisler, PhD, MD in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston - photo courtesy of Harvard University Gazette/Jason Ide
84% of interns nationwide reported work hours in violation of the new professionally-mandated ACGME rules. These rules continue to allow shifts of up to 30 hours in a row, yet even these permissive limits are routinely exceeded.
Read the Harvard Medical School Press Release.
Related links
JAMA: Extended Work Duration and the Risk of Self-reported Percutaneous Injuries
Harvard Gazette: Interns continue to work overly long shifts
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