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KMID : 0385920140250020183
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Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
2014 Volume.25 No. 2 p.183 ~ p.188
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Current Duty Hours of Emergency Resident Physicians in Korea: Multicenter Cross-sectional Study
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Chung Sung-Phil
Kang Hyung-Goo
Kim Ho-Jung
Ryu Ji-Ho
Park Yoo-Seok
Seo Dong-Woo
Yoon Young-Hoon
Yoon Jae-Chol
Lee Kyung-Won
Lee Jang-Young
Jeung Kyung-Woon
Cho Gyu-Chong
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted in order to determine the current status of duty hours of emergency resident physicians in Korea.
Methods: The training committee of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine surveyed using a questionnaire on resident training status, which contained the total number of duty hours during four weeks of July (first to 28th day) according to the grades of the resident physician. The proportions of both irregular working hours and independent working hours without supervision of a board certified physician were also evaluated.
Results: Responses from 80 hospitals out of 97 training hospitals were analyzed. The average number of duty hours of emergency resident physicians was 63.7±10.7 hours/week. The proportion of hospitals for which the average number of duty hours exceeded 80 hours/week was 16.1%. Irregular working hours consisted of 63.9%. Residents in 15(18.7%) hospitals worked 3.7~73.5% of their duty hours without supervision of a board certified physician. The higher grade resident had fewer working hours (p<0.001). No statistical difference was observed in the rate of both irregular work and unsupervised work according to the grade.
Conclusion: Results of this study showed that nine(11.3%) hospitals had average duty hours above 80 hours/week. In Korea, training hospitals should prepare to minimize the impact of duty hour restriction in the near future, as well as to improve training quality.
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KEYWORD
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Training, Workloads, Hospital emergency service
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