Junior Doctors Long Hours

Junior doctor warns long working hours 'are patient …

https://www.newstalk.com/news/youre-not-safe-to-look-after-patients-junior-doctor-warns-over-long-working-hours-1354224

Under the EU Working Time Directive, the average working time for each seven day period must not exceed 48 hours - including overtime. 'You're not safe to look after patients' - Junior doctor...

Junior Doctors And The Working Time Directive - Save Doctors …

https://savedoctorslives.com/2019/09/24/junior-doctors-and-the-working-time-directive-when-dangerous-working-hours-and-shift-rotas-are-declared-safe/

Secondly, they committed that from February 2016 the practice of junior doctors working more than 7 days in a row would be abolished. However, a Freedom on …

20% of junior doctors in S'pore work more than 80 hours …

https://mothership.sg/2022/03/junior-doctors-singapore-long-hours/

"Survey showed that 20 per cent of all junior doctors exceeded the stipulated 80-hour work week," Koh revealed. Singapore Medical Council guidelines …

Junior doctors working unsafe hours to ‘earn their stripes’

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/junior-doctors-working-unsafe-hours-to-earn-their

On average, junior doctors worked 50 hours per week, with more than one in four logging more than 55 hours per week, suggesting a significant proportion of the healthcare workforce may be at risk of mental …

Junior doctors’ extended work hours and the effects on …

https://academic.oup.com/intqhc/article/23/2/210/1786502

Why So Many Young Doctors Work Such Awful Hours …

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/doctors-long-hours-schedules/516639/

Residents in America are expected to spend up to 80 hours a week in the hospital and endure single shifts that routinely last up to 28 hours—with such workdays required about four times a...

Junior doctor - Wikipedia

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In 1991 the government, the NHS and the British Medical Association (BMA) agreed a package of measures on working hours, pay and conditions which was called the New …

Junior doctors repeatedly working past shift end, NHS …

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/15/junior-doctors-working-past-shift-end-nhs-data-england

Tens of thousands of junior doctors are working past the end of their shifts because hospitals are so understaffed, NHS figures show. Almost 36,000 trainee doctors in England have worked...

How many hours are in the average physician workweek?

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/how-many-hours-are-average-physician-workweek

About two-thirds of physicians aged 40 to 69 work between 40 and 60 hours per week. Another 20 percent work between 61 and 80 hours per week. For physicians under age 40, about two-thirds work between …

In Conversation: Doctor's work-life balance and burnout

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/physician-work-life-balance-and-burnout-what-has-changed-in-the-last-40-years

A series of reforms in the United Kingdom reduced the working hours of junior doctors first to 90 hours a week in the late 1980s, and then to 56 hours in 1991. In 1998, the European...