Please keep these general rules in mind when planning or requesting time off.

• Time off is to be spilt so that half occurs before January 1 and half occurs after January 1

• No time off may be taken:

• During any trauma rotation

• During the whole month of June and first 2 weeks of July

• During the December block which contains Christmas + New Year

• During Thursday and Friday of mock orals

• During Thursday and Friday of ABSITE week

• Weekends before and after your requested time off are not guaranteed

• If you would specifically like one weekend over the other, please make that known in the calendar request

• More than one intern may not take time off at the same time

• Prelims will usually save one week of vacation for the end of June to allow for time to move prior to next residency placement

• Only ONE resident from the same team may take time off at a time

• Only THREE (FOUR if it includes 1 chief) residents may take off at the same time

• Two residents ON THE SAME SERVICE are not allowed to take off at the same time

• You may split ONE week of vacation time into a maximum of three segments

• No more than 2 weekend requests per 8 week period. No more than 2 resident weekend requests total at a time

• No weekend requests month of June or first 2 weeks of July unless extenuating circumstances. Please run by administrator chief prior to putting in calendar

• No weekend requests for Holiday weekends or weekends of resident wide events (residency weddings, chief party etc) unless extenuating circumstances. Please run by administrator chief prior to putting in calendar

• Time off requests are first come, first served

• Please date all calendar requests and provide explanation for reason you’re requesting off

• Weekend requests are REQUESTS. They are not guaranteed until the call schedule is finalized (do not make plans off the draft schedule)

• Vacation/Conference requests will be considered approved once the vacation Google request form has been submitted online and you have received a confirmation e-mail

• I will keep track of all weekend requests, day off requests and no call requests. Please keep this number reasonable to make it fair for the entire residency

• Scheduling chief will be releasing the call schedule quarterly. 1 month prior to the following quarter will be the deadline for final requests for that quarter period. I will be sending out reminder texts. Any changes to those requests will be for extenuating circumstances.

***Subject to change at the discretion of the administrative chief or program director. ***