The extended hours and learning project addressed the following research questions:

Q.1 What are major features of the Australian postgraduate vocational and
pre-vocational medical training experience?

Q.2 What are the learning processes involved in hospital-based medical training?

Q.3 What is the impact of fatigue on learning processes involved in hospital-based medical training?

Q.4 Taking into account knowledge of fatigue/human performance and learning, what is the impact of extended work hours, sleep-deprivation and fatigue on the hospital-based medical training process?

Q.5 Taking into account knowledge of fatigue/human performance and learning, what is the likely affect, if any, on the reduction of hours of work on the effectiveness of the learning process, the quality of the training experience and the training techniques employed in hospital-based medical training?