Perspective
Compliance you can see while it still matters
Real-time, not a month-end report.
By the time an ACGME duty-hour violation shows up in a monthly report, the rotation that caused it is usually over. The resident worked the hours. The schedule that produced them has already run. The report is accurate — and too late to change anything.
That’s the quiet limitation of retrospective compliance: it’s a record of what happened, not a chance to change what’s happening. For years it was the only option, because the data itself arrived retrospectively — self-logged, collected after the fact, assembled into a picture weeks later.
We think that’s backwards, and we built ResQ around the opposite idea.
From reconstructing the picture to reading it live
When duty hours are recorded contemporaneously — as residents move through their clinical sites — the compliance picture stops being a monthly reconstruction and becomes something a GME office can watch in real time:
- Early-warning flags the moment a shift crosses a threshold, not four weeks later
- The longest active shifts across every program, surfaced as they build
- Highest weekly averages, visible while there’s still a schedule left to adjust
None of this is about surveillance — it’s about giving the people responsible for residents’ hours and well-being the chance to act while acting still matters.
What it changes for the people responsible
For DIOs and GME offices: institution-wide risk becomes visible as it develops, not in next month’s report — and the same underlying record supports well-being oversight and site-visit readiness without a separate spreadsheet exercise.
For Program Directors and Coordinators: the resident approaching a limit surfaces on their own, in time to do something about it, instead of appearing in a violation summary after the fact.
For residents: an accurate, contemporaneous record of their hours — and a program that can protect their time before a week gets away from everyone.
The shift is already available
Real-time compliance isn’t a roadmap item. It’s how ResQ works today, because the data records itself as it happens. The redesigned GME and Program Administrator dashboards are built to put that live picture first.
If your programs are still finding out about violations after the rotation ends, there’s a better way to see them.