Changes to Medical Residents' Hours, Workloads, and Supervision Needed
Print This
December 2, 2008 -- To promote patient safety, a new report from the Institute of Medicine recommends reducing the maximum number of hours that medical residents can work without a break for sleep to 16. The report also calls for increased supervision of residents, limits on the number of patients they can care for during a shift, and better monitoring of training hospitals' adherence to hour and workload rules.
