Medical resident work hours

I chose an article entitled, ‘The Silent Struggle: Depression During Residency’ (Miller. 2015), which may be found at http://medscape.com/viewarticle/851028. The article gives insight to what I am sure many of us are unaware of. Many of our medical residents are being plagued by depression and/or suicidal ideology. As a student wishing to soon one day become an administrator or manager within the healthcare industry, my mouth dropped at the statistics and immediately my mind began to search for a

people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors” (Kohn et al.). Despite the unfortunate consequences, medical errors provide an important foundation for medicine. An immense uncertainty envelopes the medical field, and frequent leaps must be made. Some of these ventures are prosperous; however, many render unsuccessful. In Complications, Atul Gawande crafts an alluring view of the medical unknown using tales of his personal medical mistakes. Through the use of ethos, logos, and pathos

In January 2012 as he investigated the challenges in the current production process, he met most of key departments and work centres by touring the factory. Industry Overview Bayonne Packaging, Inc is in the paper packaging industry. In the 1980s and early 1990s companies in the consumer goods industry start to look for a greater impact with their promotional materials

Introduction The term 12 hour shift is used to refer to a two shift system associated with an extended working day, as supposed to an eight hour workshift. Twelve-hour shifts have become the normality and standard shift option for nursing over recent years across the United States (Harris, Sims, Parr, & Davies et al., 2014 p.606). Longer work hours are viewed as a positive impact on recruitment, potential financial savings, retention, and enhanced continuity of care (National Nursing Research Unit

analysis about the focus group on hospitality and tourism management education. The conducted analysis will provide insight into the setting of the problem; this report covers 3 perspectives of the topic which are: • The perspective of education and work experience • The advantages and disadvantages of working in hospitality and tourism management. • The positive and negative statements about hospitality and tourism management The report will give an understanding of all the participants’ thoughts

During Industrialization in America, children were working and being mistreated, adults were suffering as well. Industrialization happened in the late 1800’s when people no longer wanted to work in farms and decided to move to the city. Factories and mines needed workers but they would pay them very little. Children were working instead of going to school and getting an education. This only benefited the bosses of factories and railroads because they were the ones making the most money. While the

The Impact of 2003 and 2011 ACGME Duty Hours Requirements Their Effects on Patient Safety, Resident Education and Resident Well-Being J.Edward Bates, M.Ed. Texas Tech University   Abstract In July 2003, and further defined again in July 2011, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented duty hour requirements, based on Institute of Medicine recommendations, for all accredited GME training programs. The formation of the duty hour requirements were meant to address concerns

Medical residence and students are also familiar with shift work. These individuals may even exhibit more severe symptoms of fatigue than nurses and physicians. The average resident works roughly 90 hours a week. They also work shifts known as heavy call rotations. These heavy call rotations consist of residents being on call two to three days a week with, one 24 hours day off out of a 7-day period. Within this rotation they are required to experience both day and night shifts (Lockley, Barger 10-12)

there are also several branches of schooling. And in order to become a doctor, surgeon, or a radiologist a person must go through the Medical Residency Program, otherwise known as the Match Program. Depending on which type of medicine a person wants to go in they have to choose a type of medical residency program, an example would be that if a person would want to work as a doctor they would have to go through the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Each residency program was created at different times

working over 110 hours a week and desperately trying to keep your eyes open on your drive home. The article, “Medical Residents Need to Get Tougher” written by Melissa Johnson recognizes that residents are working inhumane hours in attempt to prove their self-worth. Johnson argues that there has been a long lasting tradition of working the residents under pressure to “weed out the weak ones” (Johnson, 2012, para. 2). In remarks to that, the cost of paying residents for long hours is cheaper than for