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Where do we go to change that 80 to 32? This thread is making me feel unsafe.

• sxg 8y ago
  So the other side of this problem is resident education. The ACGME in conjunction with medical specialty boards govern the requirements for graduating from residency. There are hard requirements on how many and which kinds of procedures you need to do and patients you need to treat over the course of your residency. Residents meet those requirements with the current average 80 hrs/week and ~3–5 years of training. Moving from 80 to 32 hrs/week would likely require an expansion of training time to ~6–10 years, which residents would be absolutely against (I know I would be). I've been in school forgoing a "real job" with a salary for nearly a decade, and I'll be in my mid-30s before I become an independently practicing physician under the current system. Although the work hours are abhorrent, I don't want to add more years to my training in exchange for better hours.