Time Study of an Internship on a University Medical Service

Authors:
  • HPHenry E. Payson
    Henry E. Payson
  • EGEugene C. Gaenslen
    Eugene C. Gaenslen
  • FSFred L. Stargardter
    Fred L. Stargardter
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Abstract
RESPONSIBILITY for full patient management is first assumed by most doctors in the United States during their internship. Many of the procedural routines and clinical methods learned at that time become the foundation of the standards and technics of their future practice. Probably every person connected with a training service has some ideas of how interns spend their time, and many of how they should, but so far as we know, there are no published accounts of actual time studies such as industry has used in improving its technics and standards. In May, 1959, we made a ten-day time study . . .