title: Sick and tired: New ACGME Standards Limit First-Year Resident Work Hours.
abstract: In September, the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education adopted new resident training program standards recommended earlier this year by a task force created to reassess standards that were approved in 2003.The new standards include new duty hour restrictions; beef up resident supervision requirements, especially for interns; and add new requirements on professionalism for all members of the residency program team.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ortolon
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D010820:Physicians; D013781:Texas; D016526:Workload