Who's Job Is It Anyway?
You blame these individuals when you are dissatisfied with your call schedule.
Who are the Administrative Chief Residents?
You show up for clinic in joggers and a hoodie, but your attending gives you a side-eye. You check this policy to confirm the expectations.
What is the Dress Code Policy?
The number of hours required off between scheduled duty periods
What is 8 hours?
This committee is responsible for discussing milestone levels for each resident based on evaluations and feedback
What is the Clinical Competency Committee?
You want to know how much time you can take off for parental leave without affecting board eligibiilty, so you pull out this policy.
What is the Time Off Policy?
You are a PGY3 making plans for your Elective month, so you seek out this individual to create your planned goals and objectives.
Who is the Program Director?
The location your badge should be visible to staff and patients at all times in patient care areas
What is front facing and chest-level?
You are asked to take an extra shift, but are not sure how it affects your hours and pay, so you consult this.
What is the Extra Shifts Policy?
The recommended time by which residents should have selected a faculty mentor
What is the end of the PGY-1 year?
You are caring for a sick family member and need to figure out if you can use your accrued time to do so under Maryland State law, so you find this document.
What is the Maryland Sick and Safe Leave Policy?
You have finished your 24 hour shift and are signing out to the oncoming team when a new patient arrives in triage. The oncoming senior resident asks you to work her up so they can finish receiving signout. This is against duty hour restrictions found in this policy.
What is the The Learning and Work Environment Policy?
A resident comes in to round wearing Figs scrubs, Crocs, painted nails, a nose piercing, and his hair is dyed purple. These are the dress code violations present for this individual.
What are the nose piercing and purple hair?
You get a page at 2am about an inpatient on the gyn service that you have never heard of - upon review you determine that she had surgery and was admitted overnight, but did not receive sign-out. This policy outlines what should have occurred.
What is the Transition of Care Policy?
You are falling asleep during morning rounds and struggling to stay awake. Your attending recommends that you take a nap before driving home or take an Uber, but you are a poor, underfunded resident. They pull out this policy so you remember to submit your transportation receipts to your PD for reimbursement.
You are a PGY4 resident planning to interview for jobs, and know that this is the number of days (outside of vacation days) you are given to complete job interviews
What is 13 days?
You begin your Specialty Gyn Rotation but are not sure what you are supposed to be gaining from the experience, so you consult this document.
What is the PGY 3 and 4 Specialty Gyn Goals and Objectives?
Your medical student asks what shoes would be most appropriate to wear for their first day. Per the dress code policy, these are your two suggestions.
What is neat, clean, and safe for the job being performed AND never flip flops?
Patient hand-off should always be conduction in the presence of one of these two people
Who are the attending physician or the senior resident?
As an intern, you are choosing your faculty mentor. You want to know how often you're expected to meet and what topics to plan to discuss, so you look at this document.
What is the Mentorship Policy?
What additional day off are PGY1 residents granted during the year outside of PDs and Vacation days?
What is Step 3 Exam day?
Dr. Shell made us fill in our own individualized learning plan this year - is that really necessary? This policy details specific resident expectations.
What is the Residency Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles Document?
This is the length to which nails should be trimmed from the tip of the finger when working in clinical areas
What is 1/4 inch?
Our institutions Duty Hour policies are reflective of this nationwide requirement
This is the level of supervision provided by faculty when a PGY2 resident signs out an evaluation and plan for a threatened abortion in the ED they are planning to send home
What is indirect supervision?
You submitted an abstract to a scientific meeting and it was accepted for an oral presentation. Under this condition, the program would not cover the expenses of the conference.