http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—About 65 percent of surgical residents report that they disapprove of the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program requirements, which place restrictions on duty hours, according to research published in the May issue of JAMA Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-majority-surgical-residents-hours.html Surgery Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:31 EST news287939004 Medical interns spend just 12 percent of their time examining and talking with patients, and more than 40 percent of their time behind a computer, according to a new Johns Hopkins study that closely followed first-year residents at Baltimore's two large academic medical centers. Indeed, the study found, interns spent nearly as much time walking (7 percent) as they did caring for patients at the bedside. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-doctors-in-training-patient-bedside.html Health Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:47:15 EST news285940028 Limiting the number of continuous hours worked by medical trainees failed to increase the amount of sleep each intern got per week, but dramatically increased the number of potentially dangerous handoffs of patients from one trainee to another, new research from Johns Hopkins suggests. The reductions in work hours also decreased training time, the researchers found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-hours-medical-interns-patient-handoff.html Health Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:00:07 EST news283435491 (HealthDay)—Although many residency program directors approve of individual components within the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Requirements introduced in 2011, less than half express overall approval, according to a perspective piece published in the Feb. 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-discusses-impact-acgme-requirements.html Other Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:20:02 EST news280673760 (HealthDay)—The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advocates that all interns, residents, and fellows should have parental leave benefits consistent with the Family Medical Leave Act during pediatric training, according to a policy statement published online Jan. 28 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-aap-endorses-parental-pediatric-residents.html Pediatrics Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:50:02 EST news278688639 A survey of surgical interns suggests many of them believe that new duty-hour restrictions will decrease continuity with patients, coordination of care and time spent operating, as well as reduce their acquisition of medical knowledge, development of surgical skills and overall educational experience, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-survey-surgical-interns-duty-hour-restrictions.html Surgery Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:00:08 EST news259250253 Patient handovers have increased significantly as a result of the restrictions on the number of hours residents are allowed to work. Multiple shift changes, and resulting consecutive sign-outs, during patient handovers are linked to a decrease in both the amount and quality of information conveyed between residents, according to a new study by Dr. Adam Helms from the University of Virginia Healthsystem in the US and his colleagues. Their work1, which characterizes the complex process of resident sign-out in a teaching hospital, appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine2, published by Springer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-hospital-patients-shift-shuffle.html Other Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:17:21 EST news238335368