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A Statement on
Resident Duty Hours
The Accreditation
Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Board of Directors approved
institutional standards for resident duty hours in February 2003, to be
implemented by July 2003.
Here at UCLA, we have
taken this charge very seriously. Resident well-being has been a priority
not only for the program directors of both internal medicine and
pediatrics but also the Dean of Graduate Medical Education.
We are happy to report
that previous to the ACGME statement, in both pediatrics and internal
medicine, we were very close to compliance with the policy. However, the
following changes in particular were implemented to ensure full
compliance:
Internal
Medicine
In January 2003, teams
of residents were formed to evaluate each rotation for compliance with the
ACGME policy. A particular focus was on the intern year. In April 2003,
pilots of the new schedules were put into effect, and the entire
curriculum was in compliance by June 2003.
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Residents leave by
1:00 pm
post-call
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CCU is every 5th
night overnight call
-
Solid oncology wards
is every 5th nigh overnight call
-
Inpatient wards at
CHS is average every 6th night overnight call (actually every
4th alternating with every 8th)
Pediatrics
This year’s chief
residents went through the entire curriculum to evaluate each rotation for
compliance with the ACGME policy. The following changes were made:
-
Inpatient wards at
CHS was changed to every 5th night overnight call
-
Residents leave by
9:30 am
post-call on most rotations
For information on the
ACGME policy and the resident duty hours statement, please check out the
following links:
http://www.acgme.org
http://www.aamc.org/hlthcare/gmepolicy/gmepolicy.pdf
