Surgical skills and decision making is directly supervised by attending staff in the operating theatre. Emergency management skills are provided and supervised with graduated responsibility depending on the year in training. In general, simple evaluations and non-operative management is initiated by the most junior resident supervised by the next level of training. Any cases where there may be a surgical decision process involved, are carried throughout the entire call team to provide multiple layers of checking and to involve all residents on-call in the decision process for surgical management. The chief resident on-call is responsible for all the activities of the call team.
Any surgical management performed is supervised by the attending staff.
Program Policies Residents rotation scheduling is handled with the cooperation of residents in each year with guidance by the block diagram schedule. Efforts are made to balance the more demanding rotations with less demanding rotations so that the stress level for residents can be divided evenly among the year. Call is divided evenly among the residents and involves approximately one night out of every four. A typical call night involves approximately four to six hours of direct patient care. The residents are provided 15 week days of paid vacation time and are allowed an additional five days of meeting time per year.