PROFESSIONResident work-hour limits to headline education debateAMA's Council on Medical Education recommends an 84-hour-per-week limit for residents.By Myrle Croasdale, amednews staff. June 10, 2002. A groundswell of concern regarding sleep-deprived medical residents and patient safety has helped move resident work hours to the top of the agenda for the AMA's Council on Medical Education. The result is a raft of new policy proposals, including a resident work week cap of 84 hours, a maximum of 24 hours of on-call duty and monitoring of residents' moonlighting schedules. "The AMA has not set specific work hours before. This is definitely a big change [if approved]," said Rebecca Patchin, MD, chair of the AMA's Council on Medical Education "The AMA is a very powerful voice in setting standards, and this would give the Association a policy that could be used to determine legislation, like the Conyers bill," the Patient and Physician Safety and Protection Act introduced in Congress by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D, Mich.). The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is expected to present similar rules when it meets June 10-11, prior to the AMA Annual Meeting. The council is recommending:
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