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Dear surgical residents, please read following info from acgme and share your experience. Do these rules work in your program? If, no do you think it will eventually work?
1.Residents are limited to a maximum of 80 duty hours per week, including in-house call, averaged over four weeks. In certain cases, starting in July 2004, residency programs will be allowed to increase duty hours by 10 percent if doing so is necessary for optimal resident education and the program receives approval from the appropriate RRC.
2.Residents must be given one day out of seven free from all clinical and educational responsibilities, averaged over four weeks.
3.Residents cannot be scheduled for in-house call more than once every three nights, averaged over four weeks.
4.Duty periods cannot last for more than 24 hours, although residents may remain on duty for six additional hours to transfer patients, maintain continuity of care or participate in educational activities.
5.Residents should be given at least 10 hours for rest and personal activities between daily duty periods and after in-house call.
6.In-house moonlight counts toward the weekly limit. In addition, program directors must ensure that external and internal moonlighting does not interfere with the resident's achievement of the program's educational goals and objectives.
1.Residents are limited to a maximum of 80 duty hours per week, including in-house call, averaged over four weeks. In certain cases, starting in July 2004, residency programs will be allowed to increase duty hours by 10 percent if doing so is necessary for optimal resident education and the program receives approval from the appropriate RRC.
2.Residents must be given one day out of seven free from all clinical and educational responsibilities, averaged over four weeks.
3.Residents cannot be scheduled for in-house call more than once every three nights, averaged over four weeks.
4.Duty periods cannot last for more than 24 hours, although residents may remain on duty for six additional hours to transfer patients, maintain continuity of care or participate in educational activities.
5.Residents should be given at least 10 hours for rest and personal activities between daily duty periods and after in-house call.
6.In-house moonlight counts toward the weekly limit. In addition, program directors must ensure that external and internal moonlighting does not interfere with the resident's achievement of the program's educational goals and objectives.
