32 Ideas for Achieving Work-Hours Compliance

David W. Easter, MD, FACS, Program Director and
Carol Runge, Program Coordinator
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Originally Published by the American College of Surgeons

The controversy over work-hours regulations has abruptly shifted from ‘should we do it’ to ‘how can we do it.’ Program directors, residents, hospitals, and our many publics are all intensely invested in achieving these strict mandates. Indeed, even the future strength of our profession, i.e., our ability to attract the best and brightest medical students into surgical field