80 Hour Work Week!!!

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Hey everyone, I am writing a paper on the attitudes toward the 80 regulated work week for resideny programs and would appreciate your input.

1. How do you feel about the 80 hour regulation?

2. How do you think they will affect resident learning abilitiy?

3. How do you feel it will affect malpractice?

4. Do you feel it will make the idea of becoming a doctor less overwhelming?

5. Do you think it will have an effect on the way older physicians view their replacements?

6. Do you feel that the 80 hour limit will be adhered to or will it be taken more as a loose rule, and why?

Thanks everyone. It is just your opinions so feel free to express them.

 

[JohnUC33]

Hey everyone, I am writing a paper on the attitudes toward the 80 regulated work week for resideny programs and would appreciate your input.

1. How do you feel about the 80 hour regulation?

2. How do you think they will affect resident learning abilitiy?

3. How do you feel it will affect malpractice?

4. Do you feel it will make the idea of becoming a doctor less overwhelming?

5. Do you think it will have an effect on the way older physicians view their replacements?

6. Do you feel that the 80 hour limit will be adhered to or will it be taken more as a loose rule, and why?

Thanks everyone. It is just your opinions so feel free to express them.

Well, as I will only be MS1 in the fall, I don't have a first hand opinion to give. Yet, I was talking to a surgeon about this topic just last week. He did residency before the 80 limit. He said that he would easily push 100+ a week during his residency. He said that the new docs training under the 80hr limit are "wusses." Well, ask me for my opinion in about 5-6yrs, and I might just be glad to work only those "wussy" hours 😀

 

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Thanks! Anyone else? Just need a couple more responses and the more specific the better! 🙂

 

[CatsandCradles]

Well, as I will only be MS1 in the fall, I don't have a first hand opinion to give. Yet, I was talking to a surgeon about this topic just last week. He did residency before the 80 limit. He said that he would easily push 100+ a week during his residency. He said that the new docs training under the 80hr limit are "wusses." Well, ask me for my opinion in about 5-6yrs, and I might just be glad to work only those "wussy" hours 😀

I second that 🙂

 

[group_theory]

Yet, I was talking to a surgeon about this topic just last week. He did residency before the 80 limit. He said that he would easily push 100+ a week during his residency. He said that the new docs training under the 80hr limit are "wusses." Well, ask me for my opinion in about 5-6yrs, and I might just be glad to work only those "wussy" hours 😀

Not picking on you JohnUC33 since it was the surgeon and not you who made the comment. But the comment reminded me of a blog by a Panda Bear, MD 🙂

"In the old days when most of your older attending were residents, things were considerably different. It’s true that they spent long hours at the hospital but the pace was a good deal slower on the wards as there were both fewer interventions and a much slower turnover of patients. These were the days when the hospital course for someone with a heart attack was three weeks. Today it is usually two days, sometimes even one if the heart cath was done early in the morning and the patient is in otherwise good health.

It is one thing to be on call on a service with a census of patients most of whom are long term and stable boarders, it is another thing to be on call on a service with rapid patient turnover and a completely new census every few days."

http://pandabearmd.blogspot.com/2006/04/yes-hours-still-suck.html

 

[DrMom]

duplicate thread, so closing