Investigating the impact of resident duty hours
• Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Associate Program Director for Research Scholarship at the Medical College of Wisconsin Internal Medicine Residency Program
• Hospitalist at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center
• Vice Chair of the National VA Hospitalist Field Advisory Committee
Hot Question: Are today’s residents prepared to be hospitalists?
HN: What is next for you in terms of research?
Dr. Fletcher: I have been spending more time writing about and researching workload for inpatient physicians. I still focus quite a bit on resident physicians. It’s not totally independent of work hours because one of the concerns with decreasing work hours is that the intensity of the work increases. The amount of work doesn’t decrease in proportion to the time, so there’s still more work to be done in less time. How does that impact the residents and the patients? That’s where I’m going now.
–Mary Ellen Schneider
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