Association Between Resident Duty Hours and Self-study Time Among Postgraduate Medical Residents in Japan

Kazuya Nagasaki; Yuji Nishizaki; Tomohiro Shinozaki; Hiroyuki Kobayashi; Yasuharu Tokuda

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.0782

Association Between Resident Duty Hours and Self-study Time Among Postgraduate Medical Residents in Japan

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e210782. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.0782.

Authors

Kazuya Nagasaki¹, Yuji Nishizaki², Tomohiro Shinozaki³, Hiroyuki Kobayashi¹, Yasuharu Tokuda⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Mito Kyodo General Hospital, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
² Department of Medical Education, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Information and Computer Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Muribushi Okinawa for Teaching Hospitals, Okinawa, Japan.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses information from the General Medicine In-Training Examination survey in Japan to assess the association between resident duty hours and self-study time.

MeSH terms

Clinical Competence*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education, Medical, Graduate / methods*
Humans
Internship and Residency / methods*
Japan
Retrospective Studies
Workload / statistics & numerical data*