title: Have the 'black clouds' cleared with new residency programme regulations?
abstract: For decades, residents believed to work harder have been referred to as having a 'black cloud'. Residency training programmes recently instituted changes to improve physician wellness and achieve comparable clinical workload. All Internal Medicine residents in the internship class of 2014 at Columbia were surveyed to assess for the ongoing presence of 'black cloud' trainees. While some residents are still thought to have this designation, they did not have a greater workload when compared to their peers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Schissler
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.|Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Einstein
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009518:New York; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: education; medical training; physician wellness; residency