Duty-hour restrictions: “incompatible with the realities of surgical training”

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A Triumph of Hope Over Experience?Comment on “Surgical Training, Duty-Hour Restrictions, and Implications for Meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Core Competencies”

Mark L. Friedell, MD

"This study¹ suggests that surgery interns are more idealistic and hopeful about the ACGME 2011 duty-hour restrictions than their program directors, who, for the most part, felt that the recommendations in the 2008 Institute of Medicine report were “incompatible with the realities of surgical training,” particularly for interns."

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Antiel RM, Van Arendonk KJ, Reed DA,  et al.  Surgical training, duty-hour restrictions, and implications for meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies: views of surgical interns compared with program directors.  Arch Surg. 2012;147(6):536-541