{"id":21,"date":"2007-02-26T16:18:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/orthopaedic-surgery-residency-program\/on-call-requirements\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:06:58","slug":"on-call-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/orthopaedic-surgery-residency-program\/on-call-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"On-Call Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boston Medical Center<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile on rotation at Boston Medical Center, three residents are on call each night. A chief resident is on call from home, and a senior and junior night float resident in house. At each level, call averages only every fourth night.\u00a0 Call can be demanding while at BMC, the areas busiest level-one trauma center, so two residents are assigned to share the responsibility and act as a team. Senior and junior residents are required to go home in the morning after being on call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lahey Clinic<\/strong><br \/>\nCall is shared by all 5 residents rotating at Lahey Clinic averaging every fifth night. Residents take in-house call by themselves and are required to go home in the morning after being on call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boston Veterans Administration<br \/>\n<\/strong>Residents take home call while on rotation to the VA, averaging every fourth night. This rotation is shared with the Harvard residency program, as is the call responsibility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Institution<\/th>\n<th>Call<\/th>\n<th>Frequency<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Comments<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BMC<\/td>\n<td>Junior, Senior<\/td>\n<td>Q4<\/td>\n<td>In-house<\/td>\n<td>Three-tiered system, covering entire medical center.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BMC<\/td>\n<td>Chief<\/td>\n<td>Q4<\/td>\n<td>Home<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lahey Clinic<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>Q5<\/td>\n<td>In-house<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Boston VA<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>Q4<\/td>\n<td>Home<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children&#8217;s<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Q4<\/td>\n<td>In-house<\/td>\n<td>One weekend night<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MGH Onc<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>In-house<\/td>\n<td>Only two 24 hour weekend call for entire block<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Medical Center While on rotation at Boston Medical Center, three residents are on call each night. A chief resident is on call from home, and a senior and junior night float resident in house. At each level, call averages only every fourth night.\u00a0 Call can be demanding while at BMC, the areas busiest level-one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/2544"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/orthopaedics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}