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New ACGME Work-Hour Guidelines and Their Impact on Current Residency Training Practices

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Objective

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has introduced new work-hour guidelines for residents in ACGME accredited programs that were implemented in July 2003. The new ACGME policies impact several practices in various psychiatry residency programs across the U.S., even though psychiatry has not been at the forefront of the debate regarding work hours.

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The authors surveyed all psychiatry residency programs in the U.S. and identified several current practices that may infringe on the new ACGME work-hour guidelines.

Conclusion

Further interpretation of the new guidelines is needed.

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  1. School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    S. Pirzada Sattar M.D. (Associate Director of Residency Training and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Staff Psychiatrist),  Fatima Basith M.A., M.P.A. (Research Volunteer),  James Madison Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) &  Subhash C. Bhatia M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry, Chief of Mental Health and Behavior Science)

  2. VA Medical Center, 116A, 4101 Woolworth Ave, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    S. Pirzada Sattar M.D. (Associate Director of Residency Training and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Staff Psychiatrist) &  Subhash C. Bhatia M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry, Chief of Mental Health and Behavior Science)

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Correspondence to S. Pirzada Sattar M.D..

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This study was supported in part by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program for Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse.

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Sattar, S.P., Basith, F., Madison, J. et al. New ACGME Work-Hour Guidelines and Their Impact on Current Residency Training Practices. Acad Psychiatry 29, 279–282 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.29.3.279

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