Education Outcomes in a Duty-Hour Flexibility Trial in Internal Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Concern persists that inflexible duty-hour rules in medical residency programs may adversely affect the training of physicians.

Methods

We randomly assigned 63 internal medicine residency programs in the United States to be governed by standard duty-hour policies of the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or by more flexible policies that did not specify limits on shift length or mandatory time off between shifts. Measures of educational experience included observations of the activities of interns (first-year residents), surveys of trainees (both interns and residents) and faculty, and intern examination scores.

Results

There were no significant between-group differences in the mean percentages of time that interns spent in di

SUBMITTER: Desai SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6101652 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature