Principles of fatigue in residency education: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Proposals to implement fatigue-management strategies in residency education assume that medicine shares the view of other risk-adverse industries that fatigue is hazardous. This view is an essential underpinning of fatigue-management strategies that other industries have embedded as part of their workplace occupational health and safety programs. We sought to explore how residents understand fatigue in the context of their training environment.

Methods

We interviewed 21 residents in 7 surgical and nonsurgical programs at Western University in 2014. All participants met the inclusion criteria of routinely working 24-hour call shifts while enrolled in their training program. Data collection and analysis occurred iteratively in keeping with constructivist grounded th

SUBMITTER: Taylor TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933638 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature