Graduate Medical Education| Resident Programs | Medical Students

Didactics will be supplemented through an evolving, new consortium or OPTI agreement with MSU-COM involving the neurosciences. On site campus lectures will be scheduled on selective Fridays at MSU. Teleconferences will typically occur on selective Tuesdays with Botsford Residents presenting cases when assigned.

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HOURS OF WORK

Medicine, in general is not a 9-to-5 job. The residents routine daily work hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., or until the necessary day's work is completed. The night call resident is on duty from 6 p.m. until 7 a.m. Communication between day time and evening on call residents is mandatory in order to enhance patient care. No resident is to leave the hospital if work remains to be done, without permission of the Program Director or attending neurologist present at that time. Total work hours will be in compliance with current AOA regulations, moonlighting in accordance with current AOA policy.

MOONLIGHTING

Moonlighting will be in accordance with current AOA policy.

ON CALL

The on call schedule will be formulated by the designated chief resident as approved by the Program Director or Assistant Program Directors.

ON CALL DUTIES: The resident will be available by phone/beeper for all calls from the emergency department or hospital floors regarding patients. The resident must make a decision how he/she is to respond to the call and at an appropriate time, notify the attending neurologist on call.

Taking call, seeing patients on an emergent or urgent basis is necessary to develop one's skills as a clinical neurologist. This component of the residency must be taken seriously.

DAILY ROUNDS

The resident on a manage service, must be up-to-date daily with the status of his/her patients, test results, treatment, etc. The resident must be able to accurately convey this information to the attending neurologist.

Consultations require a history which is essential to making an accurate diagnosis. Phone calls may be necessary in order to obtain an accurate history.

The resident performing consultations will check the voicemail on an hourly basis. He/she will notify the attending neurologist of any additional consults that have been called in, so that the neurologist can plan his/her rounding accordingly.