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Our program complies with the Accreditation Council
for Graduate Medical Education requirements for resident work hours.
All call is in-house with varying responsibility, depending on the
rotation and year of training. On any night there is at least one
intern and one senior (PGY-2 or PGY-3) resident in-house. Family
medicine residents rotating on pediatrics also participate in in-house
call. Attending support is available from critical care, pediatric
faculty, and subspecialty attendings.
During the first year, the on-call resident admits patients to
the pediatric ward for the general pediatric service, as well
as for private teaching faculty and subspecialists. The intern responds
to acute issues for pediatric ward patients. During an intern’s
four months of inpatient ward rotations, call is every fourth
night. During the other rotations for the remainder of the year,
call is
every fifth to sixth night. There is currently no overnight call
during emergency pediatrics and neonatal intensive care rotations.
Upper level (PGY-2 and PGY-3) call is primarily night float. Residents
rotate on night float an average of two months during their PYG-2
year and one month during their PYG-3 year. The night float resident
admits all patients to the pediatric intensive care unit
and evaluates all patients admitted by the intern. Night float residents
respond to acute issues in the pediatric intensive care unit and
provide support and supervision for the on-call intern. Night float
hours are from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. Upper-level
residents on other rotations take call Friday, 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. and
Sunday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. or Saturday, 7 a.m. to Sunday, 7 a.m. This
constitutes about one weekend of call a month. The other weekends,
upper-level residents are off from 5 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Monday.
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