{"id":1332,"date":"2009-11-10T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/duty-hours-what-are-your-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:13","slug":"duty-hours-what-are-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2009\/11\/10\/duty-hours-what-are-your-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Duty Hours &#8211; What are your thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellows: Do you feel like you spend too much &#8212; or not enough &#8212; time in the hospital? Over the last several years, there have been dramatic changes to the number of hours that residents and fellows are permitted to spend in the hospital during a given period of time, during both the day and the work week.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acgme.org\/acWebsite\/home\/NascaLetterCommunity10_27_09.pdf\">letter<\/a> from Thomas Nasca, M.D., the CEO of ACGME and the Vice Chair of the Task Force for the Revision of the Duty Hour Standards, provides an interesting perspective on the rationale behind the changes in duty hours and the effects (both positive and negative) that these changes have had.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Do the changes in duty hours leave the physician-in-training more or less prepared to handle the challenges of practicing medicine in the &#8220;real world,&#8221; where duty hours do not exist?<\/p>\n<p>What do you see as the positive and negative effects of these changes?<\/p>\n<p>Can you describe times when your training was limited due these changes?<\/p>\n<p>Can you describe times you felt pressured to <em>not <\/em>comply with these requirements?\u00a0 How did you handle this?<\/p>\n<p>How do you think these changes affect cardiology differently than the other subspecialites? Or do they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellows: Do you feel like you spend too much &#8212; or not enough &#8212; time in the hospital? Over the last several years, there have been dramatic changes to the number of hours that residents and fellows are permitted to spend in the hospital during a given period of time, during both the day and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}