The Relationship Between ACGME Duty Hour Requirements and Performance on the American Board of Emergency Medicine Qualifying Examination

Abstract

Background In

Critical Appraisal of Emergency Medicine Educational Research: The Best Publications of 2016

“…Similar to prior years, the most common study populations were medical students (21/75; 28%) and residents (48/75; 64%) . Interestingly, this year only one study addressing medical students was highlighted for excellence, in contrast to prior years.…”

“…The relationship between ACGME duty hour requirements and performance on the American Board of Emergency Medicine qualifying examination. J Grad Med Educ 2016;8:558–562 …”

“…Three of these studies with an experimental design were highlighted . There was a decline in the number of observational studies (35/75; 47%), compared to 2015 (36/61; 59%), but an increase in the number of studies using survey methodology (19/75; 25%) in 2016 compared to 10 of 61, 16% in 2015, and 0% in 2014. It should be noted that all survey studies in this review drew data from participants from multiple institutions per the predetermined selection criteria.…”

Impact of duty hours on competency‐related knowledge acquisition among community hospital residents

“…These two competency areas can be assessed by written examinations, and are generally the primary assessment items on the in‐training examination. There was no clear upward or downward trend in the impact of work‐hour restrictions on the resident performance in in‐training examinations in the United States in the fields of internal medicine, emergency medicine, and surgery 13–16 . The current variation in DHs in Japan may reflect the number of assigned inpatient cases.…”

“…There was no clear upward or downward trend in the impact of work-hour restrictions on the resident performance in in-training examinations in the United States in the fields of internal medicine, emergency medicine, and surgery. [13][14][15][16] The current variation in DHs in Japan may reflect the number of assigned inpatient cases. The number of patient encounters correlated with performance in in-training examinations in internal medicine residents, family medicine residents, and students on internal medicine clerkships.…”