Compliance with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hours in a general surgery residency program: Challenges and solutions in a teaching hospital

The inception of work hour restrictions for resident physicians in 2003 created controversial changes within surgery training programs. On a recent Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education survey at our institution, we noted a discrepancy between low recorded violations of the duty hour restrictions and the surgery resident ’s perception of poor duty hour compliance. We sought to identify factors that lead to duty hour violations and to encourage accurate reporting among surgery trainees.

Source: Surgery - July 7, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: David F. Grabski, Bernadette J. Goudreau, Jacob R. Gillen, Susan Kirk, Wendy M. Novicoff, Philip W. Smith, Bruce Schirmer, Charles M. Friel Source Type: research