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Rep. Will Greer introduces bill to cap medical trainees' hours at 60 per week
Summary
Representative Will Greer introduced a short-form bill to limit weekly hours for practicing physicians, graduate medical students and hospital medical staff to 60 hours, citing patient safety and referencing ACGME guidance and the Libby Zion case as motivating history; members raised coverage, on-call and federal-law complexities.
Representative Will Greer told the Committee on General and Housing on Jan. 20 that he had filed a short-form bill to limit overtime for medical staff and trainees, arguing that excessive hours harm both learning and patient safety.
Greer said the draft would cover practicing physicians, graduate medical students and hospital medical staff and that, unlike the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) 80-hour guidance, the bill would "limit their hours to 60 a…
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