Resident work hour violations

If a resident wants to report work hour violations that are beyond her or his control, then can there be any legal ramifications if the information reported to the ACGME is accurate and supported by official documentation?

On a separate, albeit related question, is it possible to report the violations 2-3 years after graduating from the program, so as to prevent any repercussion while in the program? Put differently, is there a statute of limitations on this?

Interesting. Over 400 views of this question in under a few days, yet no reply. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Clearly it must be a topic that many people have on their mind. Can someone address this?

Dude .. suck it up. It's only 5 years. Many before you used to work a lot longer than you are. Took call every other night - 30-36 hour on with 12-18 hours off for months at a time and never complained.

If you don't want to suck it up, then at least talk to your PD before bringing down your whole residency program

That didn't answer my question, and assumed that I have plans to bypass the due process described by the ACGME's language. I don't see why you made that assumption. Simply, I am trying to gather the facts as I decide how to best approach this.

Incidentally, I have approached the PD and even the office of GME, but the way our program is designed, this still occurs.

As for sucking it up, that is precisely what I intend on doing, hence why I ask about the statute of limitations. Having said that, however, it seems that your solution to this is to throw this under the rug and never discuss it. This is wrong for many reasons, and I cannot imagine that attenings who have a genuine interest in resident education will condone this (as opposed to perhaps attendings who have a misplaced or disingenuine interest in academics who might condone it.) This is precisely why I posted the question for attendings and not on the portion of the forum that seeks replies from residents.

I could be wrong in asking, but is there any chance that you are a resident? Nothing personal!!! I simply ask out of curiosity to see if my assumption is correct.

I wonder if you log your cases as vigorously as you log your work hours...?

My "assumption" is that its cowardly and of poor character to wait to report it after you're done so that you don't hose yourself. Instead you'll be hosing all the juniors below you. Congrats.