Working conditions of interns/residents and patient safety: Painful training might not be authentic
- Authors
- Kim, Seung-Sup
- Issue Date
- 2월-2016
- Publisher
- KOREAN MEDICAL ASSOC
- Keywords
- Patient safety; Intern; Resident; Working hour; Occupational health
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, v.59, no.2, pp.82 - 84
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- Volume
- 59
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 82
- End Page
- 84
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/89672
- DOI
- 10.5124/jkma.2016.59.2.82
- ISSN
- 1975-8456
- Abstract
- The current working conditions of medical interns and residents in South Korea pose dangers to patient safety as well as to staff health. A national survey in 2014 showed that interns/residents worked an average of 93 hours per week. The prevalence of physical and verbal violence experienced by medical residents in the preceding 12 months was reported as 13.1% and 61.5%, respectively. Furthermore, sleep deprivation due to long working hours was strongly associated with a high risk of committing. near miss errors'. An act to govern the working environment of interns/residents was established in 2015 and stipulates a maximum working hours of 88 hours per week. This is an important step toward improving patient safety and intern/resident health in South Korea.
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