A global template for reforming residency without work-hours restrictions: Decrease caseloads, increase education. Findings of the Japan Resident Workload Study Group

Medical Teacher

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 232-239

  Deshpande, Gautam A ^a,b   Soejima, Kumiko ^a,c   Ishida, Yasushi ^a,c   Takahashi, Osamu ^a,c   Jacobs, Joshua L ^a,d   Heist, Brian S ^e   Obara, Haruo ^f   Nishigori, Hiroshi ^g   Fukui, Tsuguya ^a,c  

^a Center for Clinical Epidemiology   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857537767     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.652489     Document Type: Article

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