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Have the ‘black clouds’ cleared with new residency programme regulations?
Author(s) -
Schissler A. J.,
Einstein A. J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.13076
Subject(s) - workload , medicine , internship , clearance , medical education , residency training , work (physics) , family medicine , management , urology , continuing education , economics , mechanical engineering , engineering
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.