Do no harm, even to residents
Most family medicine residents outside of Quebec must complete in-hospital extended-hour call shifts often exceeding 24 consecutive hours—the equivalent of 3 back-to-back 8-hour workdays—with little to no sleep.[1][1]-[7][2] It requires some mental and ethical gymnastics to justify current
Authors
- Nicholas Preobrazenski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1222-221X)
Institutions
- University of Ottawa (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Canadian Family Physician
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.7109539
- Primary Topic
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00