Senior residents take back-up call from home. Residents attend clinic with assigned faculty one to three times a week. Residents train with both Emory faculty and private attending surgeons. Back-up call is taken by the senior residents every third night. Call on the Cardiothoracic Surgery service is every third night from home, shared with the Cardiothoracic fellows.
Residents attend clinics one to three days a week.
Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital and the Emory School of Medicine Grady campus are adjacent to the hospital. All of the services through which residents rotate are staffed by Emory faculty. The Surgery A and B and Trauma service teams, including the SICU, take in-house call every third night and trauma call three out of four nights. The interns on Urology and Orthopaedic Surgery cross cover to take in-house call Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Monday, Wednesday, Friday, respectively. Interns in the Emergency Room are on five days and off two.