Learning, Satisfaction, and Mistreatment During Medical Internship

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Abstract
IN SPITE OF recent recommendations and changes, resident working conditions continue to be a source of concern for both residents and hospital administrators. Of all the stages of medical training, the first year of residency is perhaps the most stressful.1 More than medical school, more than the later years of residency, the first postgraduate year is experienced as a trial by fire.2 To be successful, interns must learn to balance such diverse demands as the responsibility for patient care, economic hardships, on-call schedules, patient death, the need for constant learning, the task of teaching, the requirements of attending physicians and senior residents, along with the necessities of family and personal life.