Trainees' attitudes to shift work depend on grade and specialty

doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7379.48

BMJ 2003;326:48 ( 4 January )

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Trainees' attitudes to shift work depend on grade and specialty

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EDITOR $---$ How doctors in training view the changes in their working pattern that will be required by the European working timedirective is not known.¹ By 2004 it will limit their continuousworking to no more than 13 hours in 24. As work has been definedas being at the workplace on duty, even if sleeping, this willmean shift work for those who must be resident when oncall.

Some British doctors in training have indicated that they are opposed to any reduction in working hours because of the impacton the experience or the education they would acquire.² Othershave been opposed to the idea of shift work because of the impacton their personal or social lives.³ We explored whether suchviews were general.

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We used methods previously reported to conduct a survey of trainees at all grades and in all specialties in NHS trusts insouth London.⁴ We . . . [Full text of this article]

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