Expand the number of people in their residency programs;

Reduce the number of hours worked each week by residents; and

Offer routine and confidential on-the-job psychological support.

Male doctors are 1.4 times more likely to kill themselves than their peers in the general population. Female doctors are 2.3 times more likely to kill themselves.are just some of the reasons behind the suicide epidemic plaguing the medical community.An average - which means they could be forced to work more than 80 hours one week, as long as they work fewer the next week. These hours don't include time residents spend at home doing patient follow-up and completing paperwork, which that does not count as part of their "duty hours."In 2017, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) changed its policy by, even thoughwhen the Institute of Medicine has declared that anything over 16 hours is unsafe.Why do hospitals force residents to work such inhumane hours?Between 1990 and 2010, the number of patients admitted at teaching hospitals increased 46% , while the number of resident doctors only increased by 13%. Hospitals say they can't afford to hire enough doctors to meet patient demand, so they use residents.Instead of working resident doctors to the point where they make an error-putting patient's lives at risk and feel the only way out is to take their own life, hospitals should: Since the ACGME has proven to be resistant to change and unwilling to protect the wellbeing of young doctors,