ACGME Clinical and Educational Work Hour Standards: Perspectives and Recommendations from Emergency Medicine Educators.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) were invited to contribute to the 2016 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) Second Resident Duty Hours in the Learning and Working Environment Congress. We describe the joint process used by ACEP and CORD to capture the opinions of emergency medicine (EM) educators on the ACGME clinical and educational work hour standards, formulate recommendations, and inform subsequent congressional testimony.

Methods

In 2016 our joint working group of experts in EM medical education conducted a consensus-based, mixed-methods process using survey data from medical education stakeholders in EM and expert iterative discussions to c

SUBMITTER: Wolf SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785201 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature