A group of Chicago which establishes labour standards for graduates from school of Medicine of the United States has voted to eliminate a maximum of 16 hours for first year residents. Supporters say that the measure will improve the formation of new health professionals - but critics warn that it will do just the opposite. The graduate medical education Accreditation Council announced the measure Friday as part of revisions that include reset the limit for rookies - the same maximum allowed for residents of advanced. An 80-hour limit of the week for residents of all traces of levels rather than the new rules. Dr Anai Kothari, a third-year resident in a panel of Council which recommended the changes, says that only occasionally works 24-hour shifts. Hours give you time to finish with patients rather than be sent home in the middle of a case, said Kothari, who works at Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago.But Dr. Samantha Harrington first-year resident thinks that they will endanger the security of residents and patients. Harrington says that their 14-hour shifts this winter at Cambridge Hospital near Boston are already quite long. For staying awake while driving home after work, she sometimes rolls down the window to let in freezing air you blast in the face. Harrington says the strenuous hours are 'based on a patriarchal system of hazing,' where physicians for a long time 'I went through it, therefore you have to go through it too'. He is a member of the Committee of interns and residents, a Union group that opposes changes in shift work. So too does the American Medical Student Association. Kelly Thibert, President of the group, says putting a maximum of 16 hours in shift work of the citizens would be a safer way to the playing field. There are more than 120,000 rookies including physicians in training in the United States. The Accreditation Board has for years struggled with the guarantee that doctors are properly trained but not overworked. The death in 1984 of a college student of 18 years at a hospital in New York who, under the care of medical residents, working long hours a national spotlight on the issue. Error of medication and inadequate supervision was cited in that case, which resulted in a long investigation and limits of State by resident work hours. In 2003, the Council applied national standards that establish shift cover 24 hours and week of 80 hours of work for all residents. After that a report by the Institute of medicine raised security concerns further about sleep deprivation of the residents, the Council in 2010 shortened work shift caps for residents of first year to 16 hours and recommend «strategic napping. Critics of the shorter limit said that now a novice physicians. Dr. Karl Bilimoria, Professor of surgery at Northwestern University, said that some residents have complained that he had to leave work in the middle of surgeries. Bilimoria led a study published last year suggesting that first-year residents could work longer without endangering the safety of the patient or their own well-being. The investigation was one of the published results that helped persuade the panel to recommend the lifting of the limitation of 16 hours. Critics say that strenuous hours are 'based' a system governing The patriarchal hazing of the Council approved the recommendation in a vote last month. The Group delayed announcing the vote until its annual Conference of education, which ends on Sunday in Orlando, Florida. 'We all agree that nobody wants to tired doctors' said Dr. Rowen Zetterman, Chairman of the Board. He said that new rules give more flexibility training programs, help eliminate sudden deliveries of patients and improve teamwork between the new doctors and their supervisors. The rules say doctors rookie must have close supervisors and more experienced doctors can intervene if a new resident is exhausted, Zetterman said.U.S. medical general of training includes the Bachelor of science followed by four years of medical school-related. After that, newly arrived physicians pursue several years of training in work as medical residents, usually in hospitals. Scholarships or additional training in medical specialties may follow after that.
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