Ask the expert: What items should be included in first-year resident handbooks/resident manual?
Residency Program Insider, January 11, 2011
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Include the following information in your first-year resident handbooks:
- Residents’ and fellows’ pager numbers
- Faculty members’ pager numbers and e-mail addresses at sponsoring and participating institutions
- Administrative support staff pager numbers and extensions
- Weekly resident schedule for sponsoring and participating institutions
- Rotation schedules by postgraduate year level
- Directions to all hospitals where residents rotate
- Admission and discharge orders
- Operative and procedure note instructions
- Commonly prescribed medicines and dosages
- ACGME common duty hour standards
- Summaries of daily required rotation duties
- Operative reports and discharge summaries
- ACGME Case Log System
- Resident research timeline
- Hospital/departmental committees
- Library and hospital Internet access login and password information
- Career planning resources
This week’s question and answer are from Residency Program Alert.
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