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BMJ 2004; 328 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7442.775-a (Published 25 March 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;328:775
- Colin Douglas, doctor and novelist
- Edinburgh
Hours in training? Never really thought about it, mainly because it was never an issue. About 5500 hours? Sound about right, for the first year at least? Probably: about 90 on a good week; 120 or more with the weekend on call; and let's just ignore the really bad weeks, when one's co-resident on a pair of wards was off on holiday: weeks that, however dire, could at least never go beyond 168.
Not sure about the training, though. For …
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