ACGME duty-hour recommendations—a national survey of residency program directors.

This survey of internal medicine, pediatrics, and general surgery residency program directors found strong support for many components of the recently proposed duty-hour regulations, including the overall limit of 80 hours per week and the requirement for on-site supervision of first-year residents. However, most directors disagreed with the proposed 16-hour maximal shift length for interns, and only a few of the programs surveyed already enforce such a limit.