Resident Duty Hours

The following links relate to a formidable challenge facing residency programs: how to balance the need to ensure resident competency in diagnosing and treating patients with the need to minimize on-the-job fatigue, errors, and accidents.

• Institute of Medicine Report on Resident Duty Hours
  This 2008 report from the IOM recommends important changes to the original 2003 ACGME duty-hour limits.
• ACGME on Resident Duty Hours
  ACGME resources regarding standards that went into effect July 2011.