If you haven’t heard, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education proposed changes to their Common Program Requirements – the standards that govern resident work hours and working conditions.
Although the public comment period is closing soon, the topic inspired me to begin a two-part series on resident work hours.
Part 1 covers the history of resident work hours, from the days when “resident” meant resident; through the formalization of residency training at Johns Hopkins; to the social and economic factors that transformed residents into the backbone of the modern hospital workforce; through the Libby Zion tragedy and fight for an 80-hour workweek and into the modern day.
It’s a heck of a ride, and if you have 49 minutes and 1 second to spare, I invite you to join me for it.
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