New Weekend Call Schedule Trial

We will be "beta" testing a new call schedule for the weekend to ensure that residents don't work for more than 24 hours.

The following will only apply to residents and NOT interns:

Old Schedule:
Night float Thursday 9pm - Friday 7am
Wards Friday 7am - Saturday 7am
Wards Saturday 7am - Sunday 7am
Wards Sunday 7am - Sunday 9pm
Night Float Sunday  - 9pm - Monday 7am


New Schedule
Night float Thursday 9pm - Friday 10am (13hour call)
Wards Friday 10am - Saturday 10am (24 hour call)
Wards Saturday 10am - Sunday 10am (24 hour call)
Wards Sunday 7am - Sunday 9pm (12 hour call)
Night float Float Sunday 9pm - Monday 7am

Sunday night throughout Thursday morning, The scheduling will remain the same


What does this mean?

• There will be a 3 hour window where you'll be on call WITHOUT your intern while you admit to the incoming team.
• Example: Night float is on until 10am on Friday morning. A consult comes in at 9am. The senior resident is not available yet but the intern from Platinum team is there already. The night float senior will take the consult information, triage the patient appropriately, then supervise the ward intern during the encounter with the patient. The admission will be to platinum. Once the senior arrives at 10am, there will be a senior to senior sign out.
• Example: Platinum team is now on 24 hour call from Friday 10am to Saturday 10am. A consult is called on Saturday at 8am. The Platinum senior will take the consult, triage the patient appropriately, then supervise the incoming ward intern (Purple) to see the patient. Once the next team senior (Purple) arrives at 10am, there will be a senior to senior sign out.
• We will be using a consult pager that will be passed on from senior to senior. The pager number is 307-2191. This will simplify the process for the hospital to know who to contact for medicine consults.
• This new schedule means you will come 3 hour later on the 24 hour calls so you can leave by 10am and not hit the 24 hour mark.
• We understand this sounds complicated but the alternative more simple approach to avoid  >24 hour call is to extend night float from 5 nights to 6 so we can cover friday nights and then have residents that are on non call rotations (Cards, ID, AC, Neuro, etc..) Saturday night float. ---This means you will give up 1-2 weekends off while on non call rotations

If you have any questions or confusion, please don't hesitate to call us or ask questions in the comments.

211 Scheduling for Rotation 8 and 9

Please note the following:

Rotation 8 (1 week each rotation):

Assem: ICU/AC/NF/AC

Ansari: AC/ICU/AC/NF

Cohen: NF/AC/ICU/AC

Galustanian: AC/NF/AC/ICU

Rotation 9:

Awerbuck: ICU/AC/NF/AC

Kassabian: AC/ICU/AC/NF

Mustafa: NF/AC/ICU/AC

Yaghoubian: AC/NF/AC/ICU

Schedule Changes for Block 5

Hi Everyone,

Unfortunately one of the ER interns was unable to start his residency this year. Subsequently we are short an intern on wards during the next block. Sarah and I decided to move Hamammi and BenPerlas from ICU to wards. They will be able to do an extra 2 weeks of ICU instead of night float during their 3rd year as the current schedule gave Assem and Cohen an extra 2 weeks of ICU during their 3rd year.

There are several changes that will need to be made to accommodate this

 

Medicine Clinics:

Clinic Cancellations:

• Hammami 10/21, 10/27
• BenPerlas 11/4, 11/10
• Gholam 11/4

New Clinic dates:

• Hammami 10/23, 10/30
• BenPerlas 11/4, 11/12
• Gholam 11/3

Summary:

• Gholam: move 11/4 to 11/3
• Hammami: move 10/21 to 10/23 -and- move 10/27 to 10/30
• BenPerlas move 11/10 to 11/12

Finally,

Chen, Please be aware that on 10/30 and 11/3 Hammami and Chen are both in clinic and Gholam will be off. That means that you will have to sign out your patients at 1pm and likely come early to see and start your patients in time to ensure safetyl

AMiON has been updated to reflect the changes above. Please review the schedule and submit any errors through the blog

Clinic Rescheduling

Please be aware of the following changes:

8/19 (Tue) Dr. Bazmi unavailable

following clinics cancelled:

Ansari

Arutyunov

Sidhu

8/21 (Thu) Dr. Bazmi unavailable

following clinics cancelled:

Azizi

Gholam

9/4 (Thu) Dr. Bazmi unavailable
following clinics cancelled:
Galustanian
Kassabian


9/10 (Wed) Dr. Ragland Unavailable:
following clinics cancelled:
Cohen
Yaghoubian
Azizi
Avertisyan


9/15 (Mon) Dr. Ragland Unavailable:
following clinics cancelled:
Awerbuck
Sidhu
Benperlas
Gholam


9/11 Dr. Ratnayake will be available (spoke to him directly on the phone)

following clinics are RESCHEDULED:

Chen

Galustanian

Gill

AMiON has been updated.

A message from Tonya:

If the resident is not available for the follow up clinic visit, we will book all returns with Ruby Reyes or one of the Internal Medicine Physicians covering the Internal Medicine overflow and KMPG Clinic (Dr. Brar, Dr. Meghapara, Dr. Epinolpoly, or Dr. Sandhu).  The patient will be referred back to the Internal Medicine Resident for Continuity of Care.

Internal Medicine ITE Schedule

Please check the below schedule for the Internal Medicine In-Training Exam. Make sure to sign out to the cross covering resident before your exam. Cross covering residents, please carry the pager of the person you are covering while he or she is taking the exam. Inform your attendings of the days you will not be available, it is a full day exam.

Exam Date: 9/5/2014	Exam Date: 9/12/2014
Awerbuck (ICU)	Ghafarizadeh (Wards)
Avetisyan (ID)	Assem (BakVA)
Cohen (Wards)	Gill (Wards)
Arutyunov (Wards)	Yaghoubian (Neuro)
Galustanian (Wards)	Ansari (AC)
Azizi (Wards)	Chen (EM)
Talwar (AC)	Lee (Cards)
Hammami (Cards)	Ammar (ICU/AC)
Gholam (AC/ICU)	Sidhu (AC)
Chahal (NF)	BenPerlas (Nephro)
Aguirre (NF)	Mustafa (UCLA)
Kaur (Ger)	Kassabian (ICU)

Nightfloat coverage:

BenPerlas cover night of 9/4, tell attending wont be present 9/4 and 9/5

Sidhu cover night of 9/4, tell attending won’t be available 9/4 and 9/5

Wards coverage

-Assem cover Cohen’s team on 9/5

-Yaghoubian cover Galustanian’s call on 9/5, tell Dr. Sabetian will not be available 9/5

- Lee on wards 9/5 to help Gill with post call, tell Cards attending will not be available 9/5

- Avetisyan on wards 9/12 to help Azizi on call, Tell ID attending will not be available on 9/12

ICU Coverage:

-Kassabian on ICU call 9/5 to care for all patients as ED is off and Awerbuck is taking exam. He will have an intern (Ammar).

-ED resident Blakely to take care of all patients on 9/12/2014. 

http://www.acponline.org/education_recertification/education/in_training/

Cancelled Clinics

The following clinics will be cancelled due to faculty clinic cancellation. AMiON is updated.

8/18 Dr. Ragland out

Cohen (ICU)

Mustafa (Wards)

Chen (Wards)

9/11/14 Dr. Ratnayake out

Chen (3 clinics in week)

Galustanian (Wards)

Gill (Wards)

Continuity Clinic Schedule

The following tutorial can be used to generate a report of all your continuity clinic dates. Residents are encouraged to include the exact date they want the patient to return to clinic with them. The scheduling staff are encouraged to use this list as well to maintain continuity.

1. Go to www.AMiON.com
2. Login at the top right
3. Click the My Schedule Icon:
4. Select your name in the R1/R2/R3 drop down menu
5. Click on Create Schedule
6. Click the "Yearly Clinic Summary" at the top right

Resident Conference Schedule

The tentative resident conference schedule is posted below.

Please be advised. There will be some rotations where the R3 will have up to 4 conferences to present. The reason this schedule is out so early so you have plenty of time to prepare.

Please see Renee for the M&M conference schedule.

Jeopardy system - UPDATE!

The Jeopardy system is now live on AMiON. Request any changes through the blog website


It has come to our attention that some residents are under the belief that they may leave after the jeopardy person gets called into work.

This is false. The residents on call still must stay in the hospital and take care of the floors, interns & seniors.

For example: If there is a code, the call team must respond. If there is a renewal for restraints, the call team must respond, NOT the jeopardy resident.

The sole responsibility of the jeopardy resident is to admit patients.

The point system is under review as well. Stay tuned for possible changes.

Minor Schedule Change 7/13 - 7/15, 8/2

Gholam will be unable to start night float on Sunday. The following changes will be made:

Ammar will be doing night float on Sunday 7/13 and have Monday 7/14 off. 

As a result, Gholam will be doing night float on Saturday 8/2 instead of Ammar

Avetisyan will cover Ammar's medicine clinic on Monday 7/14

Ammar will cover Avetisyan's medicine clinic on Tuesday 7/15

AMiON has been updated to reflect these changes, the operator has been notified to update the call list.

Attending/Resident Tally

Sarah has tallied up the Resident/Attending pairing for the last 2 years. This data will help us pair you with a variable amount of Attendings to maximize your exposure, this does not guarantee that you'll get your attending of choice, it is merely a guide for the Chiefs to utilize

Click on the chart and hover your mouse over the colors to see the exact weeks.

2014-2015 Schedule

We have been working diligently on the 2014-2015 schedule. On April 17th there will be a meeting with the other departments to determine how many off-service interns will rotate with us. Once the PGY-1 schedule is completed we can finalize the schedule. Stay tuned!

Also, In order to minimize scheduling conflicts, Amion will be used to implement the schedules. Get your Android/iOS apps ahead of time so you can quickly glance at your schedules once it's live.