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...first integrated into Harvard Houses, an ad-hoc group established the College’s first women’s center and library staffed by volunteers in the basement of what is now Pfrozheimer House. Plagued by problems such as insufficient funding and lack of institutional support, the make-shift center shut down in a just few years...
With this in mind, in 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which accredits post-medical school training programs in the U.S., implemented new rules that wisely limited residents to work no more than six days per week, 80 hours per week, and 30 hours per shift. But a report published this month by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers found that four out of every five residents had violated the regulations at least once in their first year of residency. With lives at stake, hospitals need to continue to work towards greater compliance with the ACGME rules...
...emergency care, from a patient’s admission to her discharge. But hospitals take advantage of residents’ long hours as sources of cheap labor. The results, unfortunately, are dangerous, with an increased risk of accidental needlestick injuries, for example, at the end of a long shift. The HMS researchers, led by Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Christopher P. Landrigan, also cite an earlier study that found that “human performance” after staying awake for 24 hours is comparable to human performance of those with a blood alcohol content of 0.10 percent...
...further improve, hospitals—including Harvard’s throng of teaching hospitals—should continue to introduce institutional changes that make compliance easier for residents. The HMS report, for example, suggests not requiring residents to work up to the very last minute of their scheduled shift, a situation which often leads to residents working overtime when an emergency occurs near the end of a shift. (Unfortunately, residents can do little to improve their own situations, since reporting their own violations could lead to de-accreditation of their own hospitals...
...were hoping that as many other institutions as possible would join us,” Fitzsimmons said.‘WHEN HARVARD SNEEZES....’College advisors said they were thrilled with the announcement and they hope yesterday’s move marks the beginning of a general shift among top universities to end early-admissions programs.“I am surprised at how quickly this happened, but I am not surprised at the snowball effect,” said a college adviser at The Key School in Annapolis, Md., Paul M. Stoneham.Cuseo, of Harvard-Westlake, said...