MEDICAL EDUCATION
Magic number Resident work-hour limits raise doubts
When duty hours for first-year medical interns were cut, the workload sometimes shifted to third-year residents like Colin Son, MD. Patient handoffs and other unintended consequences have raised concerns about a recent overhaul of resident duty hours.
“But as strict as the rules have become, we may need to reevaluate them.”
BY AMY LYNN SORREL Cari Sorrell, MD, expected a trial by fire in her first year of training as a medical resident at The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) in San Antonio. She planned to put in long hours and get as much experi- ence and clinical exposure as possible to join the ranks of upper-level trainees. Dr. Sorrell’s internship in internal medicine met her expectations — up to a cer- tain point. The work-hour limit is 16 hours, after which first-year interns must check out and leave the hospital for a mandated rest period between shifts.
June 2013 TEXAS MEDICINE 51
JIM LINCOLN
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