WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: January 27, 2011   Featuring: Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH, Director, Sleep and Patient Safety Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital David B. Sweet, MD, FACP, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Summa Health System James F. Whiting, MD, Surgical Director, Maine Transplant Program and Surgical Residency Program Director, Maine Medical Center Don Goldmann, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement     Rules are rules, but efforts to limit the number of hours medical residents can work before getting rest and sleep have not gone down easily in the US. The latest set of regulations from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), focused especially on first-year residents, is scheduled to go into effect in July 2011.   Amid ongoing debate about research tying long hours spent taking care of hospital patients to impaired judgment and an increased likelihood of making errors (or harming oneself), and what are fair and appropriate remedies, a gro