News and briefs: OSHA will not monitor resident work hours
Residency Program Insider, November 15, 2011
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
For the second time in 10 years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rejected a petition from Public Citizen requesting that OSHA regulate resident work hours, rather than the ACGME. According to a press release from Public Citizen, OSHA claims that because residents are students, it will not take the group of workers under its purview. Public Citizen has presented OSHA with a petition regarding this subject twice, once in 2001 and again in 2010. The group claims that the ACGME has been ineffective in enforcing work hour standards.
The American Medical Association sided with OSHA and the ACGME, and showed its support in a recent press release. “The ACGME is the appropriate body to regulate and monitor resident duty hours, as it is optimally suited to oversee resident and fellow physician duty hours on behalf of both the profession and the public,” said AMA President Peter W. Carmel, M.D.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
-
Insider's Guide to the ACGME Site Visit: Second Edition
Authored by an expert GME consultant and an experienced GME director, this book and CD-ROM set focuses on the steps you...
-
Insider's Guide to the ACGME Institutional Review
Eliminate the headaches and simplify institutional review preparation, with Insider's Guide to the ACGME Institutional...
-
Ethics for Residents: A Training Tool to Build Confidence and Competency
Ethics for Residents:A Training Tool to Build Confidence and Competency is a training video that provides the perfect...
-
Disruptive Residents:
This training video teaches how to prevent costly lawsuits and workplace tension while illustrating the importance of...
-
Residency Program Alert
Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Skills of effective case managers
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Neurological checks for head injuries
- E-mailed
-
- Sew up your knowledge of root operation Repair
- Q/A: Can we report cardioversion performed during an ED code?
- Q/A: Billing for technical component of clinic visit
- Q&A: Why are we seeing so many edits when using modifier -25?
- Learn documentation requirement for critical care coding in the ED
- Know when to report uncertain diagnoses
- Know the medical gas cylinder storage requirements
- Incontinence and Constipation Teaching Guide
- Searched
