Effects of Resident Duty-Hours Restrictions on Surgical and Nonsurgical Teaching Faculty
Open Access
- 1 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 142 (8), 759-766
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.142.8.759
Abstract
The Accreditation Counsel of Graduate Medical Education approved resident duty-hours restrictions in June 2002 and mandated enforcement on July 1, 2003.1 The goals of the restrictions were to increase resident restedness and reduce fatigue, with the anticipated result of decreasing medical errors and improving resident well-being. These limitations specified the following:This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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