Use of a Night Float System to Comply with Resident Duty Hours Restrictions: Perceptions of Workplace Changes and Their Effects on Professionalism

Academic Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 401-408

  Sun, Ning Zi ^a   Gan, Runye ^b   Snell, Linda ^a   Dolmans, Diana ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Anna Laberge Hospital   (Canada)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL HANDOVER; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONALISM; WORKLOAD;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT HANDOFF; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROFESSIONALISM; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84958840751     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000949     Document Type: Article

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