Insider Medical Admissions: New ACGME Recommendations for Work Hours

Thursday, July 1, 2010

New ACGME Recommendations for Work Hours

By Michelle A. Finkel MD, InsiderMedicalAdmissions.com

The New England Journal of Medicine released last week the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s latest duty hour recommendations. They are more stringent, providing more compassionate training for doctors and, hopefully, better care for patients. This table may be an easier way to visualize the changes.

I recall very clearly the week I worked one hundred and thirty-eight hours during my surgical rotation. I am still recovering :(.

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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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