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Matilde Irigoyen, MD; Donald Barton, MD; Katherine Teets Grimm, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1987;141(4):432-434.

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Medical postgraduate training has been described as a period of stress and physical and emotional exhaustion.^1-5 As a result of the long working hours and stressful environment, house officers are prone to suffer from depression⁶ and other emotional disturbances.^7,8 Their intense occupational exposure, which involves prolonged and frequent patient contact, puts them at high risk for developing communicable diseases^9,10 such as hepatitis A and B,^11,12 tuberculosis,¹³ and other infections, particularly those associated with needle sticks.¹⁴ Overall morbidity, however, has not been systematically studied in this occupational group. We therefore conducted a prospective study of self-reported morbidity and absenteeism among a cohort of pediatric residents and fellows.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

A complete cohort of 29 residents and 20 fellows in the department of pediatrics in a large New York teaching hospital was asked to participate in a prospective survey from July 1, 1980 to May 30, 1981. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 15, 1986.

Reprints not available.

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