Residents that are part of the PARA union are remunerated by Alberta Health Services (AHS) for each in-house, home call and weekend round assigned and worked.  Timesheets will be submitted for each block by our program administrator so that AHS can ensure the residents are paid accordingly.

If resident has questions about whether he/she has been paid for a specific block, please email geriatri@ualberta.ca first to ensure that a timesheet had been submitted for you for that block.  If the timesheet has already been confirmed as received by AHS, the resident should then email PARAOnCall@albertahealthservices.ca to find out more information about when he/she can expect payment.

The PARA residents are paid call stipends on the last pay date of the month.

Resident Pay Day

Our call stipend is paid once monthly on the last pay date of the month.  Refer to the link below to see the entire list of pay dates for this academic year:

Resident Pay Dates

Please review your pay stub carefully to ensure that you have been paid according to your call shifts worked.  Questions?  Check with your program administrator regarding your time sheet submission.  For all other inquiries, please contact Academic Medicine, Medical Affairs at 780-735-0431 or via email at PARAOnCall@albertahealthservices.ca.

• Check Call schedule

• On-call stipend submission are handled by Amanda Blouin, Residency Program Office, Geriatric Medicine.

• The online schedules are used for call stipend reporting. If there are changes, including a switch call, please contact geriatri@ualberta.ca as soon as possible.

• "Return to Site" reporting is required only if the conditions of Article 35.05 (d) of PARA collective agreement are true.  Article 35.05 (d) reads:

"Effective April 1, 2019, a Resident Physician who is scheduled on home call but who is required to work either 

a. more than four (4) hours in hospital during the call period, of which more than one (1) full hour is past 2400 hours and before 0600 hours, or 

b. more than six (6) hours in hospital during the call period 

shall be remunerated at the rate for in-house call. The rate of compensation will account for pay differentials for weekends, Named Holidays (as set out in Article 21(a)), Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day. AHS shall have the right to implement reasonable rules to verify that Resident Physicians are entitled to be paid the in-house call rate for that call period. To be eligible for the post-call day the individual would need to work after midnight."

Questions

• Email: geriatri@ualberta.ca

Following a meeting of Division Directors and Site Leads and recent discussions over the quality of handover, we should like to suggest that the following should be the minimum quality standards to which we should all adhere in conducting our handover.

1. It is the duty of the handing over physician to arrange to handover for the weekend.

2. Normally handover should occur at 5:00 PM but by exception a mutually convenient time should be agreed.

3. Usually a first attempt at communication should be made by pager. If there is no response after fifteen minutes then the cell phone contact number should be used. This number is held by each acute hospital switchboard.

4. The primary source of information is the ward in-patient list. The location of these lists is specific to each ward and each physician should familiarize themselves with the method by which access is gained.

5. The ward in-patient list should prioritize the following:

   • Jobs for the weekend or evening should be highlighted.

   • The sickest patients should be first on the list.

   • Should there be a sick patient, it is the incoming physician's responsibility to see the patient to assure themselves of the clinical situation upon taking over responsibility for that patient.

   • During the week there should be handover of new admissions and any significant change in clinical status of any in-patient requiring action that evening.

6. No identifiable patient data should be sent outside AHS by any electronic route. Patient lists can be printed from Netcare to help facilitate handover. It is the responsibility of the on-call physician to respond to any call after 5:00 PM in the evening regardless of handover occurring or not.

7. It is the duty of the on-call physician to certify death for any patient occurring out of hours during their on-call period.

8. Hand-back - it is the responsibility of the on-call physician to call the physician on service regarding any event which requires significant action by the routine team on the following day by 0800h. The same mode of communication, firstly by pager and then by cell phone should be used.

9. At 0800h on Monday or for hand-back or at the end of any long weekend, hand-backs should occur in a similar fashion to that conducted on Fridays.

Remember patient safety is paramount and all handover should be conducted in a considerate and professional manner.