Health stories that mattered in 2019

L Vogel - 2020 - Can Med Assoc
E78 CMAJ| JANUARY 20, 2020| VOLUME 192| ISSUE 3 subsiding. One study found no
major differences in patient outcomes in the United States before and after reforms were …

Charles A. Czeisler It's time to reform work hours for resident physicians

W Halsted - Science News, 2009 - academia.edu
the risk of hypertension, obesity, diabetes, occupational injury and depression. While on
such schedules, 20 percent of pediatric residents screen positive for clinical depression and …

[HTML][HTML] A Few Steps Forward, A Few Steps Back

KM Lumpkins, P Turner - Women's Health Reports, 2021 - liebertpub.com
It is no secret that medical training coincides with peak reproductive years for women; for
those with prolonged training periods such as in surgical fields this tension is even worse …

Gestating healthy policies for young parents

N Christian, S Acker - JAMA, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
This year, new requirements by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
(ACGME) designed toaddressandsupportresidentwell-beingaroundmedical and family leave …

The association between resident physician work-hour regulations and physician safety and health

MD Weaver, CP Landrigan, JP Sullivan… - The American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background In 2011, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
(ACGME) instituted a 16-h limit on consecutive hours for first-year resident physicians. We …

Escaping the Siren Song—Transitioning to Part-Time Work

AL Marshall - JAMA, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
2023:“That is me.” Eight years into my career—less than a decade but what feels like a
lifetime—I made the difficult decision to transition to part-time clinical practice. When I …

[PDF][PDF] Becoming where work schedules are capped at 80 hours idents typically have just four days off every month. In addition, young doctors are expected to read up …

L ELLIOTT - MASKS, MISINFORMATION - ohioopen.library.ohio.edu
82 Passover am, the residents in our hospital shouldered all the additional pressure of
COVID-19, put on their masks, and kept going. For months after March 2020, when the …

Vacation as a Duty Hour Policy Lever

JW Urwin - The American Journal of Medicine, 2020 - amjmed.com
With rising rates of physician burnout, much of the debate on work-life balance has focused
on weekly duty hours. And for good reason. Today's residents routinely work 80 hours per …

As laws restricting health care surge, some US physicians choose between fight or flight

M Suran - JAMA, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
As a flurry of state-level legislation re-stricts US health care, more physicians face a difficult
decision: stand firm, possibly lose their medical license, and face charges ranging from …

Surgeons, sleep, and patient safety

MJ Zinner, JA Fresichlag - JAMA, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Sleep deprivation is assumed detrimental to physician performance. Over the past 30 years,
increased efforts and attention to this issue have resulted in restriction of physician work …