Frequently Asked Questions
If you need urgent help in the hospital, call the Anesthesia AOD at (513) 519-1111.
Otherwise, please email/text/call your chief residents. If you are uncomfortable discussing an issue with the chief residents you can also contact the Program Director, Dr. Hawryschuk.
If you are experiencing an issue that you don’t feel comfortable discussing with either the chiefs or the Program Director, you can also contact the Department Chair, Dr. Bertsch, or the UC GME Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Dr. Jennifer OToole.
This can be done in ReadySet (https://uchealth.readysetsecure.com, or linked in OneTouch) via the "Report Incident" button on the left-hand menu. It will prompt you to fill out a form, as well as call the Employee Health Hotline at 513-585-8000.
If you are sick and cannot come to to work on a normal OR rotation:
Call the Anesthesia AOD at (513) 519-1111 and let them know you are sick and can’t come in. Please try to call around 6 AM on the day you can’t come in. You can also call the AOD the day before if you know you won’t be able to come in the next day.
Email Dr. Hawryschuk and Donna Benesch to let them know you are taking a sick day. The chief residents would appreciate being CC’d on this email so they can plan for potential scheduling issues.
If you’re not on an OR rotation, the AOD won’t be able to help you; contact the person in charge of scheduling for that rotation, or ask a chief resident who to contact if you’re not sure. You’ll still need to email Dr. Hawryschuk & Donna to let them know you can’t come in that day.
CA1s start taking call during Block 2. You may be assigned call (including weekend call) during the following rotations:
Rule of thumb: One trainee must be available during the day to start an emergency cardiac case until night float arrives. This should default to the cardiac anesthesia rotator, but may also be a cardiac-eligible (having completed the cardiac rotation) resident or the cardiac fellow.
Specific Scenarios
Single NF: If cardiac-eligible, the 24-hr call resident may cover emergency cardiac after the completion of his/her scheduled cases.
Single NF without cardiac rotator or cardiac fellow: If the "late" IPS resident is cardiac-eligible, he/she will cover emergency cardiac following the completion of the cardiac cases until NF arrives. If the 24-hr call resident is cardiac-eligible and IPS-eligible, he/she may cover emergency cardiac and IPS after the completion of his/her scheduled cases. The GA resident pulled to cardiac should not be first-line coverage.
Double NF and cardiac rotator: The cardiac rotator is expected to stay until NF arrives, regardless of when the cardiac case finishes. If the cardiac case finishes early, the cardiac rotator may choose to alternate coverage with the "late" IPS resident, (if the IPS resident is cardiac-eligible).
- cardiac fellow present: On days when the cardiac case is expected to finish following the arrival of NF, the IPS resident may sign out to the cardiac resident after the completion of IPS tasks (if the cardiac resident is IPS-eligible) because the fellow is available to start an emergent cardiac case.
- cardiac fellow absent: On days when the cardiac case is expected to finish following the arrival of NF, another resident must stay for emergency cardiac coverage. This should default to the "late" IPS resident if he/she is cardiac-eligible; otherwise it will be another resident who is cardiac-eligible.
Double NF without cardiac rotator: if the "late" IPS resident is cardiac-eligible, he/she will cover emergency cardiac following the completion of the cardiac cases until NF arrives. The GA resident pulled to cardiac should not be first-line coverage.
- cardiac fellow present: On days when the cardiac case is expected to finish following the arrival of NF, the IPS resident may sign out to the GA resident in the cardiac case after the completion of IPS tasks (if the cardiac resident is IPS-eligible) because the fellow is available to start an emergent cardiac case.
- cardiac fellow absent: On days when the cardiac case is expected to finish following the arrival of NF, another resident must stay for emergency cardiac coverage. This should default to the "late" IPS resident if he/she is cardiac-eligible; otherwise it will be a resident who is cardiac-eligible (which may be a GA resident pulled to cardiac).
Journal Club: all residents should attend journal club, but the covering resident should abstain from drinking in case he/she needs to return to UCMC to start an emergent cardiac case.
*Coverage by a GA resident pulled to cardiac should not be the norm. It is an exceedingly rare scenario, since the schedule is designed for double NF to only occur when there are two cardiac-eligible seniors on IPS or a cardiac rotator.
You can moonlight in the main ORs, on OB, and on CCAT; all moonlighting shifts occur on the weekends. The pay for moonlighting is $100/hr.
Main OR moonlighting: Available to residents beginning January of their CA-1 year. You should look up the AM call attending the day before your shift and text them to let them know you’re scheduled to moonlight the next day. You’ll generally do some cases in the morning and/or help out with blocks or anesthesia consults; usually you’ll be sent home in the early afternoon.
CCAT moonlighting: Available to residents at the start of their CA-1 year. You should look up the weekend CCAT attending the day before your shift and text them to let them know you’re scheduled to moonlight the next day.
OB moonlighting: Available to residents after they’ve completed two months of OB (therefore only available to senior residents). OB moonlighting is first offered to anesthesia fellows; the shifts they don't take are then offered to the CA3s; the shifts not taken by CA3s are then offered to the CA2s.
Shifts can be requested in QGenda; you’ll also receive emails from one of the chief residents every month listing moonlighting opportunities for CCAT and OB. The deadline for requesting moonlighting shifts is generally one week after a block is published, with some exceptions; look at the requests timeline for the exact dates. More senior residents will usually be granted priority for moonlighting shifts (in part because they can provide the greatest flexibility in cases & tasks they can do for their hourly rate). When multiple residents of the same seniority level request moonlighting on the same day, priority will usually be given to the resident who's received fewer moonlighting shifts to date.
Hours you spend moonlighting must be logged as part of your ACGME duty hours. You cannot violate duty hours moonlighting, and you’ll likely lose your moonlighting privileges if you do so.
As of 2023, there are moonlighting restrictions based on ITE performance; click here to see the regulations Dr. Hawryschuk sent out. The gist of it is that you cannot moonlight if you scored below the 30th percentile on your last ITE with possible exceptions if you complete the 50 TrueLearn questions residents are assigned each week; look to Dr. Hawryschuk’s official regulations for the full details.
You need to clock-in and clock-out of moonlighting shifts and log your hours to get paid for them. When starting a shift, you need to find one of the badge readers that you see the RNs using before and after their shifts (options include: across from the scrub machines on the first floor of MRP, near the OB workroom, and near the stairwell on 6 CCP outside the CVICU). Instructions for tracking your hours are below.
To clock-in:
Swipe your badge.
Choose “productive time.”
Under Special Code 1 type 32 (or find 32 “salaried as hourly”).
Under Special Code 2 type 12 (or find 12 “no lunch”).
Click Next.
Choose department 100852 “Anesthesia staff/Resident.” Note: this is no longer an option; we have now just left this blank.
Under Quick Code choose or type BEF250025.
Click Finished.
Click Complete Entry.
To clock-out, you follow the same steps as above.
You’ll also record the hours you work on a paper form; click here to get a PDF of the form. You should print this out before your shift starts and have your attending sign it at the end of your shift. Email a picture of this form to Allison Young (young5ak@ucmail.uc.edu) at the end of your shift so she can log them and make sure payment happens properly.
Here are the various codes to get into things:
Epidural pumps: 7770
Pain pumps: 190
Line carts: 1942
Resident library: 315
PM pharmacy cart: 1818
OB Women's Bathroom: 513
OB Men's Bathroom: 213
MRP 5th Floor Women's Bathroom: 131*
Holmes Women's Locker: #218, 48-16-28
SICU call room: 4321
IR Bathroom: 4242*
There are several locations designated for pumping breast milk at UC; click here to view a list of lactation spaces (updated as of the 2023-2024 academic year). There is a mini-silver-fridge on the 4th floor of MRP that is reserved for storing breast milk (next to the big silver fridge); there is also a fridge in the 3rd floor lactation room in the main hospital.
Dr. Kristin Horton is the point person for lactation accommodations within UC Anesthesia - please talk to her if there are issues getting sufficient time to pump or with accessing lactation spaces.