Resident duty hour regulations help balance the often conflicting goals of patient safety, trainee education, and physician well-being. Over the past few decades, there have been many changes in duty hour regulations. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced a change effective July, 2017 allowing interns and resident clinicians to work 24-hour shifts. Although an 80-hour per week limit on resident clinicians’ work, averaged over 4 weeks, was maintained, the limit on work shifts for first-year resident clinicians was extended from 16 hours to 24 hours. A limit of 24 hours per shift had already been established for those in the second year of residency and beyond.

居民工作时间规定有助于平衡患者安全，受训者教育和医师健康这两个相互矛盾的目标。在过去的几十年中，工作时间规定发生了许多变化。研究生医学教育认证委员会（ACGME）宣布自2017年7月起生效的一项变更，允许实习生和住院医师进行24小时轮班。尽管维持每周80小时的住院医师临床工作限制（平均超过4周），但第一年住院医师的轮班限制从16小时延长到24小时。对于居住第二年及以后的居民，已经确定每班24小时的限制。