Evaluation of medical intern work hours in Senegal
Background: in many countries, medical intern work hours have been discussed for a long time and many schedules has been modified in order to improve it. In our country, this topic has never been studied.
Methods: It was a cross sectional study including all resident regardless of their specialties. An online questionnaire was shared to all the members of the Senegalese association of medical Interns.
Results: Overall, 102 answers were collected. The average age was 28.3 years. More than half of the resident stated that they stay at hospital more than eight hours a day. Besides, 83,5 % declared doing more than 40 hours a week. In addition, 37,2 % of resident said that they were “on call” between 4 and 8 times monthly and 15,1% were “on call” more than 8 times per month. We have seen an average of 55,7 hours with up to eighty hours extremes.
Conclusion: Medical intern work hours is a good subject of discussion, in such an under developed country like ours.
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Posted 15 Dec, 2020
On 13 Dec, 2020
On 13 Dec, 2020
On 13 Dec, 2020
On 09 Dec, 2020
On 29 Nov, 2020
Evaluation of medical intern work hours in Senegal
Posted 15 Dec, 2020
On 13 Dec, 2020
On 13 Dec, 2020
On 13 Dec, 2020
On 09 Dec, 2020
On 29 Nov, 2020
Background: in many countries, medical intern work hours have been discussed for a long time and many schedules has been modified in order to improve it. In our country, this topic has never been studied.
Methods: It was a cross sectional study including all resident regardless of their specialties. An online questionnaire was shared to all the members of the Senegalese association of medical Interns.
Results: Overall, 102 answers were collected. The average age was 28.3 years. More than half of the resident stated that they stay at hospital more than eight hours a day. Besides, 83,5 % declared doing more than 40 hours a week. In addition, 37,2 % of resident said that they were “on call” between 4 and 8 times monthly and 15,1% were “on call” more than 8 times per month. We have seen an average of 55,7 hours with up to eighty hours extremes.
Conclusion: Medical intern work hours is a good subject of discussion, in such an under developed country like ours.
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