Stress During Residency Training

Authors: ROBERT C WELLIVER

Publish Date: 1989/10/01

Volume: 143, Issue: 10, Pages: 1130-1130

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Abstract

Sir—We read with interest the article by Hoekelman regarding stress experienced during pediatric residency training in the February 1989 issue of AJDC1 This article adequately outlined the problem of resident stress and proposed some very useful solutionsI think we can all recall similar discussions and proposed solutions dating back at least 15 years Very little has changed presumably because it has not served the interest of hospitals to follow through on these and other means of resolving the issue of stress during residency training In New York State in particular we have been presented with recommendations by the State Department of Health regarding limitations on working hours the use of nonphysician personnel for responsibilities such as blood drawing and starting of intravenous lines and the use of computers to facilitate retrieval of laboratory results Very few programs are even attempting to comply with these regulations by the

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