Dr. Najma Ahmed, St. Michael's Hospital (IMAGE)

St. Michael's Hospital

Dr. Najma Ahmed, St. Michael's Hospital

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Opinion is still divided on whether strictly limiting the number of hours surgical residents can work and train impacts patient outcomes, the residents' quality of life or the caliber of their training, according to a paper published today in the journal Academic Medicine by Dr. Najma Ahmed, a trauma surgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.

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