Do resident duty hour restrictions improve resident well-being, patient outcomes, and certification exam performance in surgery?
Resident duty hour restrictions in surgery may negatively impact patient outcomes and exam performance without consistently improving resident well-being.
Recent RDH changes are not consistently associated with improvements in resident well-being, and have negative impacts on patient outcomes and performance on certification examinations. Greater flexibility to accommodate resident training needs is required. Further erosion of training time should be considered with great caution.
Ahmed et al. (2014) studied this question.