Effects of Resident Duty-Hours Restrictions on Surgical and Nonsurgical Teaching Faculty

Perceived Impact of the 80-Hour Workweek: Five Years Later

“…Our findings were similar to those of recent studies that showed surgical faculty from all departments negatively perceive the resident 80hWW restrictions [2,4]. In those studies, faculty reported that their own workload had increased, they had decreased time for teaching residents, and they experienced increased dissatisfaction in their job and lifestyle.…”

“…Surgical educators have voiced concerns that the 80hWW cannot realistically provide enough time to fully develop necessary surgical skills, especially given the accelerated pace of technologic and scientific advances. In fact, several studies have reported that the 80hWW has been detrimental to resident training, has compromised patient care, and has led to faculty job and lifestyle dissatisfaction [2][3][4][5]. Furthermore, the limited availability of residents, a direct result of restricting work h, has necessitated the hiring of physician extenders (physician assistants and nurse practitioners), which adds considerable cost to an already financially burdened health care system.…”

Effects of Resident Work Hour Limitations on Faculty Professional Lives

“…8,[13][14][15][17][18][19] To our knowledge, only 3 have included non-surgical faculty. 8,17,18 A large single-institution survey of all faculty (248 respondents) 17 and a smaller national study of Internal Medicine faculty (111 respondents) 8 both reported decreased time or satisfaction with teaching among more than half of respondents and increased clinical time and decreased job satisfaction in more than a third of respondents. A multi-institutional survey of family medicine faculty found that 20% were considering leaving academic medicine because of WHLS.…”

Face, content and construct validity of a new realistic trainer for conventional techniques in digestive surgery

“…Simulation-based training of skills outside the OR becomes more and more important for surgical education due to new techniques [13,14] and changed working conditions [15][16][17][18][19]. Interestingly enough, a large number of training simulators are available for the relatively "young" field of laparoscopic surgery [3,4], whilst there is no suitable trainer for conventional techniques.…”