title: Expectations for medical student work hours in inpatient clinical clerkships.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  No standards regarding what should be learned during medical school exist.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We investigated what medical students and clerkship directors (CDs) believe students are, and should be, doing during clerkships.
  
  
  METHODS
  From January to June 2011, Mount Sinai School of Medicine CDs (n = 4) and 3rd-year students (n = 132) estimated how students spend time and should spend time during clerkships. Mann-Whitney U-tests compared students' and CDs' replies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All CDs and 105 of 132 students (79.5%) participated. Medicine CDs believed that students did more rounding and studying, and surgery CDs perceived that students did more note writing and studying and less waiting than students reported. Medicine CDs felt students should round more, whereas surgery CDs felt students should spend more total time in the hospital as well as in educational activities and studying than students did ( p < .05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Students and CDs disagree about how students allocate (and should allocate) time during clerkships.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York , New York, USA. rmazurkiew@nshs.edu
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mazurkiewicz
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: Reena
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karani
authors.forename: Jenny J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D016526:Workload