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

• Main Authors: Ariel Wimpfheimer (Author), Charles Weissman (Author), Shai Fein (Author), Yehuda Ginosar (Author), The Israel Anesthesiology Workforce Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...