... traditional schedule [2].LetterEffect of intern’s consecutive work hours on safety, medicaleducation and professionalismChristopher P Landrigan, Steven W Lockley and Charles A CzeislerDivision of Sleep ... ofdisciplines. We likewise agree that optimizing patient hand-offs, medical education, and trainees’ sense ofprofessionalism should be priorities as interventions aredeveloped that reduce consecutive work ... hours to ensure thesafety of patient care. We believe, however, that developmentof ‘a sense of professionalism’ is not a function of whether ashift is 30 hours or is 16 hours, but is a function...