ACGME
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The ACGME or Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is a medical organization that sets standards for U.S. residency and fellow programs as it pertains to napping and burnout.[1][2] It also deals with work hours, such as regulations to limit the intern and resident work week to no more than 168 hours.
Mission Statement
To dedicate research and resources for better call rooms because have you ever tried to sleep in one? It's disgusting.
Recent Recommendations
- On June 25, 2014, the ACGME passed a new residency requirement to take a 30-minute nap between 1 and 1:30 PM.[3] Many residents agree that compared to older colleagues this new requirement will make them soft but not as soft as the pillows on which they'll be napping.
- On January 14, 2017, the ACGME recommended that all residents be given one interrupted hour each week to reflect on their monumentally-poor decision to choose medicine as a career and the consequences of that ill-sighted choice, which include but are not limited to lack of meaningful social interaction, burgeoning of bankrupting debt, and intractable nausea.[4]
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