TY  - JOUR
T1  - TRends in us physician work hours
AU  - Chmelik E
Y1  - 2010/06/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.731
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2250
EP  - 2251
VL  - 303
IS  - 22
N2  - 
In the Methods section, the authors stated that they “identified physicians as residents if they were younger than 35 years and working in a hospital.” As a full-time hospitalist for the past 9 years since I finished residency, I passed the 35-year mark only last year. The field of hospital medicine has experienced tremendous growth over the past 10 years,2 with many physicians younger than 35 years. In a 2007 survey by the Society of Hospital Medicine,3 the median age of nonleader hospitalist physicians was 37 years, substantially younger than most other specialties.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.731
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.731
ER  -