@Cupcake Thanks for the reference. Excerpting from your ref:
VI.G.1:Maximum Hours of Work Per Week
“Duty hours must be limited to 80 hours per week, averaged over a four-week period,
inclusive of all in-house call activities and all moonlighting.”
Duty hours do not include reading, studying, and academic preparation time, such as
time spent away from the patient care unit preparing for presentations or journal club.”
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Note that is the AVERAGE. Some weeks can be 100 hours if followed by a “quiet, relaxing” 60 hour week! No wonder they are found sleeping in the utility closet or on the cot in the maintenance room! How does a schedule like that benefit the patient? Would you want someone who has only been getting 3–4 hours sleep a night closing you up after surgery? Yikes!
(Hmmm… Now where did I put that extra sponge?)