Residents on call on a Sunday are off duty on Saturday to ensure at least one full day off per week. The Service Team is a subset of the Medical Teaching Service run exclusively by the residents, providing medical care to patients admitted without a private physician, much like a city hospital experience. A volunteer attending physician or a department-based faculty member supervises the care of patients on this team. PGY-1 residents take call every third night. The attending conducts bedside management rounds daily and makes teaching rounds as well.
All residents are on call every third night.
Morning work rounds, morning x-ray rounds, and formal sign out rounds are held daily, Monday through Friday. Teaching Attending Rounds are made by a pulmonologist, a cardiologist, the full-time Chief of Cardiology, and intensivists. Medical residents are supervised by full-time Emergency Medicine attendings. They gain a broad exposure in the ER to all types of acute problems, ranging from trauma to surgical abdomens to gynecological problems to acute myocardial infarctions. Full-time medical attendings are present at all times to provide teaching and guidance.