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Published at www.nejm.org December 3, 2008 (10.1056/NEJMp0808736)

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On December 2, about 5 years after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) imposed national limits on the duty hours of medical residents, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report recommending that further measures be taken to ensure that hospitals provide safer conditions for patients and trainees while maintaining rigorous teaching programs.¹ The report concludes that these new measures should be focused on alleviating fatigue and loss of sleep among trainees, increasing their supervision by more senior physicians, improving the processes by which responsibilities for patients are transferred from physicians going off duty to those coming on, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mr. Iglehart is a national correspondent for the Journal.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0808736) was published at www.nejm.org on December 3, 2008. It will appear in the December 18 issue of the Journal.

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