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The ACGME duty hour standards that went into effect in July 2003 require: An 80-hour weekly limit, averaged over 4 weeks, inclusive of all in-house call activities; A 10-hour rest period between duty periods and after in-house call; A 24-hour limit on continuous duty, with up to 6 additional hours for continuity of care and education;
Libby Zion Law. New York State Department of Health Code, Section 405, also known as the Libby Zion Law, is a regulation that limits the amount of resident physicians ' work in New York State hospitals to roughly 80 hours per week. [1] The law was named after Libby Zion, the daughter of author Sidney Zion, who died in 1984 at the age of 18.
[46] [47] The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has limited the number of work-hours to 80 hours weekly (averaged over 4 weeks), overnight call frequency to no more than one overnight every third day, and 10 hours off between shifts. Still, a review committee may grant exceptions for up to 10%, or a maximum of 88 ...
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is the body responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs (i.e., internships, residencies, and fellowships, a.k.a. subspecialty programs) for physicians in the United States. It is a non-profit private council that evaluates and accredits medical residency and ...
Jung v. Association of American Medical Colleges was an antitrust class-action lawsuit that alleged collusion to prevent American trainee doctors from negotiating for better working conditions. The working conditions of medical residents often involved 80- to 100-hour workweeks. [1] The suit had some early success but failed when the US ...
JPMorgan Chase is limiting the hours its junior investment bankers can work after the shocking death of a 35-year-old Bank of America associate earlier this year.
The Royal College engages regularly in work to affect health policy, especially in the areas of physician employment and resident duty hours. [ citation needed ] Physician employment: In 2013, the Royal College released the results of a Canada-wide study that showed an increasing number of specialists cannot find jobs relevant to their skills ...
The Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) is the largest union of resident and fellow physicians (collectively referred to as "housestaff") in the United States, representing more than 30,000 interns, residents, and fellows in California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, Washington, D.C. CIR contracts seek to ...