On-call schedules are located on AMION at http://amion.com - The pass code is surgerymn.
If you are on-call the night before you begin a new rotation you must inform the education office that will be creating your call schedule, so that you are not placed on call back to back. Resident days off, during which they are free of all responsibilities, should be built into the specific call schedules for each site. Thus, each resident will know specifically which days they are to have off, without exception. This allows us to formalize days off for each resident and it also permits us to track compliance with this RRC requirement.
Clearly some flexibility is required because of the demanding and variable nature of the surgical services. The RRC recognizes this and that is why it is stated that residents have 1 day out of 7 free, on average. Therefore, this policy should not be construed as a mandatory weekly day off, but one that provides on average, 1 day out of 7 free.
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