The provision of safe patient care is a key driver; all of the recommendations made by the National Steering Committee, and any efforts to come to pan-Canadian consensus on resident duty hours, have been developed with attention to safety and are intended to begin and end with the patient. [...] A framework for the evaluation of pertinent metrics should be developed and launched to monitor the impact of changes to resident duty hours on the delivery of patient care. [...] The number of hours worked by residents This final project report is intended to synthesize the (physicians in training), both in terms of shift length and discussions and deliberations of the multi-year, multi-phase maximum hours per week, have significant implications for project, and to posit a path forward for the regulation of delivery of care to patients and patient safety, well-being reside [...] Such national Hours recognized the utmost importance of patient safety diversity in health care and medical education adds yet and the provision of safe care at all hours of the day as a key another dimension to the discussion. [...] While these countries’ approaches Approaches to the reflect a multiplicity of approaches to the governance of resident duty hours regulations, it could nevertheless be Regulation of Resident argued that all of these jurisdictions have an ability to offer Duty Hours valuable insight for the Canadian context of resident duty hours.