When policy meets reality: the new 18-hour on-call shift policy and the Israeli anesthesia workforce crisis

Abstract Background The Israeli physician workforce faces multiple challenges. These include planned policies reducing physician on-call from 26 to 18 h and, from 2026, allowing only graduates of Ministry of Health approved foreign medical schools to take the Israeli licensing examination and an ong...

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Main Authors: Ariel Wimpfheimer, Charles Weissman, Shai Fein, Yehuda Ginosar, The Israel Anesthesiology Workforce Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-03-01
Series:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-023-00556-x