JIPMER Limits Resident Doctors' Duty to 48 Hours a week, 12 Hours Per Day
Putting limits on long working shifts and stressing the need to achieve better work-life balance, the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) has clarified that junior residents should ordinarily work for 48 hours per week, and no duty hours should stretch more than 12 hours continuously.
In a circular issued on April 28, 2026, the institute referred to the Residency Scheme implemented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on June 5, 1992, following directions from the Supreme Court, which clearly limit resident doctors’ duty hours to a maximum of 12 hours per day and 48 hours per week.
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JIPMER caps resident doctors duty at 12 hours per stretch, 48 per week, doctors welcome move
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