When I entered internal medicine residency in 2001, we averaged well over 100 hours in the hospital per week. Shifts routinely lasted close to 40 hours. In response to several high-profile lawsuits ...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is in Chicago this week, receiving feedback from a multitude of healthcare groups on the efficacy of a five-year-old cap on work hours, ...

Contrary to goals, reducing hospital residents’ consecutive work hours was associated with more medical errors than were reported under original work hours, according to a study in JAMA Internal ...

About The Study: In this cross-sectional nationwide study of resident physicians in high-burnout specialties, longer work hours were associated with higher stress and self-perceived competency, but ...

Nearly 100% of medical residents believe that the number of training hours required of them is either adequate or more than adequate, according to Medscape’s 2024 “Residents Lifestyle & Happiness ...

The Supreme Court ruled that even if a hospital signs a training contract with a resident doctor stipulating "80 hours per week," it must still pay overtime wages for any hours exceeding 40 per week.

I've heard about rules that limit the number of hours residents can work, but I can't find any information about medical student work hours. What are the laws for us? You're quite right -- almost all ...