Insider Medical Admissions: Medical Training: Long and Dangerous Hours

Monday, December 8, 2008

Medical Training: Long and Dangerous Hours

Check out this NYT's article on residency training hours. What the author doesn't mention is that - despite the mandatory maximum 80-hour work week - many residents are working more. The residents have no incentive to report this to the Residency Review Committee (RRC) because they don't want to find themselves in unaccredited programs. The incentives are misaligned, leaving the residents without recourse.

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Years of candidate selection at Harvard taught me what characteristics comprise a desirable applicant and how even bright candidates make mistakes that undermine their admissions success. I am a practicing Emergency Physician with nine years of experience training medical students, residents and fellows. I won three teaching and mentorship awards while at Harvard. Please see Insider Medical Admissions for the full array of personalized services I offer to clients applying to medical school, residency, fellowship and post baccalaureate programs.

Dr. Finkel thanks David Presser, MD, MPH for his contributions to the content of her blog entries. Dr. Presser is a practicing Emergency Physician who has written several primers for applicants to medical school and Emergency Medicine residency. Dr. Presser is a graduate of Stanford University, UCSF Medical School, the UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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