"Let First-Year Residents Work Longer Shifts, ACGME Proposes"

Any thoughts? http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/871432 "First-year residents would no longer be limited to 16-hour shifts during the 2017-2018 academic year under a controversial proposal released today by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Instead, individual residency programs could assign first-year trainees to shifts as long as 28 hours, the current limit for all other residents. The 28-hour maximum includes 4 transitional hours that's... "Let First-Year Residents Work Longer Shifts, ACGME Proposes"
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