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Educational Forum - New legislative regulations, problems, and future perspectives, with a particular emphasis on surgical education
Major changes in the residency-training systems are currently under way
worldwide. New laws regulating the maximum number of work-hours per
week are already enforced in the USA and are soon to be enforced in the
European Union (EU); they apply to residents in training, as well as to
practising specialists in the USA. These changes are expected to
influence training imparted to resident doctors, quality of care given
to hospitalised patients and functioning of hospitals, in general. The
implications of the new regulations are likely to be magnified by the
gradual decrease in the number of young people willing to take up
Medicine as a career and even more so by the decrease in the number of
medical graduates who choose to take up Surgery as their specialty.
This communication describes the new situation that has developed
(especially in general surgery) with the recent regulations and intends
to suggest possible solution to the important problems that are likely
to arise