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- Title
Effects of resident work hour limitations on faculty professional lives.
- Authors
Goitein, Lara; Shanafelt, Tait D.; Nathens, Avery B.; Curtis, J. Randall
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education resident work hour limitations were implemented in July, 2003. Effects on faculty are not well understood.<bold>Objective: </bold>The objective of this study was to determine the effects of the resident work hour limitations on the professional lives of faculty physicians.<bold>Design and Participants: </bold>Survey of faculty physicians at three teaching hospitals associated with university-based internal medicine and surgery residency programs in Seattle, Washington. Physicians who attended on Internal Medicine and Surgery in-patient services during the 10 mo after implementation of work hour limitations were eligible for participation (N = 366); 282 physicians (77%) returned surveys.<bold>Measurements: </bold>Participants were asked about the effects of resident work hour limitations on aspects of their professional lives, including clinical work, research, teaching, and professional satisfaction.<bold>Results: </bold>Most attending physicians reported that, because of work hour limitations, they spent more time on clinical work (52%), felt more responsibility for supervising patient care (65%), and spent less time on research or other academic pursuits (51%) and teaching residents (72%). Reported changes in work content were independently associated with the self-reported probability of leaving academic medicine in the next 3 y.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Resident work hour limitations have had large effects on the professional lives of faculty. These findings may have important implications for recruiting and retaining faculty at academic medical centers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WORKING hours; RESIDENTS (Medicine); PROFESSIONAL employees; INTERNAL medicine; TEACHING hospitals; RESEARCH; WORK; RESEARCH methodology; SURGERY practice; ACQUISITION of data; EVALUATION research; MEDICAL cooperation; INTERNSHIP programs; COMPARATIVE studies; JOB satisfaction; RESEARCH funding; MEDICAL specialties &; specialists
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 7, p1077
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-008-0540-1