All four first-year cardiac residents were found to be working between 110 and 130 hours a week.
A. At this time 44 percent of first-year residents in psychiatry are international graduates.
The other first-year residents had almost a five-month jump on her.
At the time of his death, 34 transplant patients were being cared for by one inexperienced first-year resident.
Almost all first-year residents make less than $40,000 a year and often work 100-hour weeks.
I was one of five first-year residents in a three-year training program to become psychiatrists.
Like most first-year residents, I had never actually done psychotherapy with patients.
Having assisted at surgery as a first-year resident, she knew something of what such stress was like.
The changes included increasing medical staff levels and barring first-year residents from treating patients in the ward.
For us first-year residents, empty beds meant an easier time.
