Use of a personal digital assistant to monitor surgery student work and sleep hours

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 272-275

  Steinemann, Susan ^a   Omori, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical student; Work hours

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL STUDENT; OPERATION DURATION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SURGICAL TRAINING; WORK EXPERIENCE; WORK SCHEDULE;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; SLEEP; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; WORK;

EID: 31444451213     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.06.048     Document Type: Article

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