Current Duty Hours of Emergency Resident Physicians in Korea: Multicenter Cross-sectional Study
- Title
- Current Duty Hours of Emergency Resident Physicians in Korea: Multicenter Cross-sectional Study
- Author
- 강형구
- Keywords
- Training, Workloads; Hospital emergency service
- Issue Date
- 2014-04
- Publisher
- 대한응급의학회 / The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
- Citation
- 대한응급의학회 / JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE), 2014, 25(2), p.183-188(6쪽)
- Abstract
- Purpose: This study was conducted in order to determine the current status of duty hours of emergency resident physicians in Korea. Methods: The training committee of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine surveyed using a questionnaire on resident training status, which contained the total number of duty hours during four weeks of July (first to 28th day) according to the grades of the resident physician. The proportions of both irregular working hours and independent working hours without supervision of a board certified physician were also evaluated. Results: Responses from 80 hospitals out of 97 training hospitals were analyzed. The average number of duty hours of emergency resident physicians was 63.7±10.7 hours/week. The proportion of hospitals for which the average number of duty hours exceeded 80 hours/week was 16.1%. Irregular working hours consisted of 63.9%. Residents in 15(18.7%) hospitals worked 3.7~73.5% of their duty hours without supervision of a board certified physician. The higher grade resident had fewer working hours (p<0.001). No statistical difference was observed in the rate of both irregular work and unsupervised work according to the grade. Conclusion: Results of this study showed that nine(11.3%) hospitals had average duty hours above 80 hours/week. In Korea, training hospitals should prepare to minimize the impact of duty hour restriction in the near future, as well as to improve training quality.
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- http://kiss.kstudy.com/thesis/thesis-view.asp?key=3229064http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/52055
- ISSN
- 1226-4334
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- COLLEGE OF MEDICINE[S](의과대학) > ETC
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