Education Outcomes in a Duty-Hour Flexibility Trial in Internal Medicine.
Sanjay V DesaiDavid A AschLisa M BelliniKrisda H ChaiyachatiManqing LiuAlice L SternbergJames TonasciaAlyssa M YeagerJeremy M AschJoel T KatzMathias BasnerDavid W BatesKarl Y BilimoriaDavid F DingesOrit Even-ShoshanDavid M ShadeJeffrey H SilberDylan S SmallKevin G VolppJudy A Sheanull nullPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2018)
There was no significant difference in the proportion of time that medical interns spent on direct patient care and education between programs with standard duty-hour policies and programs with more flexible policies. Interns in flexible programs were less satisfied with their educational experience than were their peers in standard programs, but program directors were more satisfied. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blo