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To the Editor: Although house staff night call contains important educational activities, it also is a time-consuming and potentially stressful experience. Faculty usually are not present at night to observe house staff activities and may misjudge the time required to perform nighttime duties. However, faculty have significant influence on the design of house staff programs and are the principal evaluators of house staff. Therefore, we performed a survey of faculty to evaluate knowledge of house staff on-call activities.

Methods

An anonymous survey was given to general internal medicine and pediatric faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. The results of the surveys were compared with a time-motion study that directly measured actual duration of activities during night call.¹

Results
Response rates were 80% (20/25) for internal medicine and 85% (17/20) for pediatric faculty. Faculty estimates often differed from the results of the time-motion study (Table 1). On average, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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