Do regulated resident working hours affect medical graduate education? Trends in the American psychiatry board pass rates pre- and post-2003 duty hours regulations

BJPsych Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 299-302

  Jain, Gaurav ^a   Dzara, Kristina ^b   Mazhar, Mir Nadeem ^c   Punwani, Manisha ^d  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHIATRY; RESIDENT;

EID: 84973576199     PISSN: 20564694     EISSN: 20564708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.113.046292     Document Type: Article

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