In the wake of the 2003 and 2011 duty hours regulations, how do internal medicine interns spend their time?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1042-1047

  Block, Lauren ^a   Habicht, Robert ^b   Wu, Albert W ^a,c   Desai, Sanjay V ^a   Wang, Kevin ^d   Silva, Kathryn Novello ^b   Niessen, Timothy ^a   Oliver, Nora ^e   Feldman, Leonard ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

graduate medical education; residency work hours; time motion

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EATING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE INTERN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SLEEP; TIME MOTION ANALYSIS; WALKING; WARD; WORKING TIME;

HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME MANAGEMENT; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84880511973     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-013-2376-6     Document Type: Article

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