Is your program ready to implement the new ACGME regulations on hours and supervision?
The Work Smart Toolkit includes:
- A checklist to help ensure successful work redesign for ALL PGY levels
- 20 best practices from residency programs nationwide, plus program contact information
- Additional tips and resources for residency program redesign
Experience shows that when residents participate in schedule redesign, all residents benefit from shorter hours, better training and a safer work environment.
Please send us your own best practices!! Email info@cirseiu.org to contribute.
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We’ve also curated a number of additional resources demonstrating best practices across the country:
- Internal Medicine, Summa Health System: A video documenting how an Akron, Ohio program has successfully reduced on-call shifts to no more than 16 hours, without hiring any additional staff.
- Shorter Hours, Fewer Nights: Life as a British Resident: To U.S. physicians, limiting resident work hours to 48 per week seems unimaginable. But to Elisabeth Paice, FRCP, dean of postgraduate medical education in London, it’s all part of effective medical training.
- Capping Hours at 12: Overcoming resistance at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, NY to reforming resident work hours.
- Alert & Awake For Everyone’s Sake: A Resident Work Hours Conference in New Zealand, where there have been a maximum of 16-hour shifts and 72-hour weeks since the mid-1980s.
- Multiple examples of implementation – from HoursWatch.org
- The Case for 16 Hours: Dr. Christopher Landrigan of the Sleep and Patient Safety Program uses a PowerPoint presentation to make his case based on the evidence.
- 3 Case Studies: Reducing Resident On-Call Shifts to ≤ 16 Hours: How did programs at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center, Akron’s Summa Health System and New York’s St. Luke’s-Roosevelt reduce their maximum on call shifts to 16 hours or less? CIR News reports on these three case studies.
