As of July 1, 2017, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (sorry, in the episode I called in American College--this is wrong) made its first step EVER to extend duty hours for physician trainees. Whereas interns (first year residents) were previously limited to working 16 hour shifts, now they can work as many consecutive hours as senior residents--up to 28 hours at a time! In this episode of the I Wonder series, I ask Ali what he thinks about these new stipulations.

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