title: An analysis (time study) of service and education in a neurosurgery residency program.
abstract: A time study analysis of the activities of neurosurgery residents, allocating their time to one of four categories (service, education, questionable, personal), indicates that the service-education percentage ratio is 44.65:37.34 during the week and 61.50:28.11 for the weekend. The distribution of activities within service and education categories identifies the extent to which a neurosurgery resident in this program is a student, although most of the "service" activities are those that a neurosurgeon must learn to perform efficiently in order to practice his specialty.
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013997:Time Factors