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Call is every 4th night, in-house, for Inpatient (IP) and
Intensive Care (PICU and NICU) rotations. Urgent care call
(UC), taken while on some outpatient rotations, is from
6:00 pm – 10:00
pm on weekdays, and from 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm on the
weekends. Residents have urgent care call for 8 weeks in
their intern year and for 4 weeks in their 2nd and 3rd years
while on ambulatory General Pediatric Clinic rotations.
Another type of "call" within the curriculum is
Backup call (BU). Residents are required to be available
by pager within a 1-hour drive from the hospital to cover
in case another resident is ill or additional help is required
for patient care. There is an average of 6 residents on BU
call per rotation. Residents will be called only to cover
rotations that they have experienced (for example, a PL-1
resident will not be asked to cover in the PICU). When a
backup call is covered for someone else, the same number
of hours of call will be repaid to the resident at another
time.
In the second and third years, residents have one call-free
rotation. The call-free rotation is useful for scheduling
electives for those applying for fellowships, those interested
in international electives, and those interested in away
electives at other institutions.
Senior and Intern Float duties
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