Hour Tracking Solutions for Residency and Fellowship

Programs

Profundus

presents

The Problem Though not new, long resident duty hours

has come to the forefront as a serious concern for patients, their families, residents and fellows, and the medical community as a whole.

In addition to long hours, residents face: Shorter hospital stays – greater turnover

means more paperwork. A sicker patient population. Financial cutbacks – widening the job

description of the resident and fellow. Doing more in less time.

ACGME Duty Hour Standards

ACGME duty hour standards have been in effect since July 1, 2003

Since that time, many residency and fellowship programs have struggled to cope.

Residents are limited to a maximum of 80 duty hours per week, including in-house call, averaged over four weeks.

Residents must be given one day out of seven free from all responsibilities, averaged over four weeks.

ACGME Duty Hour Standards

Duty periods cannot last for more than 24 hours, although ~6 additional hours are permitted for the sake of continuity of care and educational activities.

Residents should be given at least 10 hours for rest and personal activities between daily duty periods and after in-house call.

In-house moonlighting counts toward the weekly limit. Program directors must ensure that moonlighting, both inside and outside, does not interfere with the resident’s achievement of the program’s educational goals and objectives.

The Solution

Profundus offers numerous means of tracking hours in order to accommodate the diversity of interested institutions and individuals.

A printable version of an Hour Traxx card A stand-alone Hour Traxx handheld application Hour Traxx web forms An Hour Traxx handheld application with web

interface The above tools are capable of being

customized to fit each individual institution’s needs.

Hour tracking cards are available in PDF for printing and then tracking hours by hand Available free online Institutions may pay a small fee to have

special PDF files with their logo and institution-specific instructions

A stand-alone Hour Traxx handheld application for keeping track of hours on Palm-OS, Pocket PC, and Blackberry devices One-time fee

A web-based form for entering hours worked. Once entered, the data is graphed showing individual hours, averages, and averages by days of the week, rotation, etc. Monthly access fee

A handheld Hour Traxx application which allows one to upload the information with each HotSync. The data then is graphed as above. One-time fee plus monthly access fee