The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Resident Office Suite is located independently of the department offices and in close proximity to the orthopaedic inpatient units, operating room and emergency room. This area contains the resident office, on-call room, conference room for daily fracture and reading conferences and weekly bioskills workshops and orthopaedic library. This facility contains amenities such as a refrigerator, television, VCR, toaster oven, coffee maker and microwave. The office is equipped with three personal computers, laptop, two printers, fax machine, CD burner, DVD player, scanner (and Playstation).

Meals

On-call residents are provided with vouchers for dinner and breakfast on call days. A lunch voucher is provided for weekend call days. Limited complimentary food and drink are provided in the resident lounge nightly for those who are unable to eat during cafeteria hours.

Night Call

• The PGY -1 general surgery resident follows general surgery call guidelines. The department of general surgery is in full compliance with the ACGME work hour standards.
• NIGHT FLOAT/IN-HOUSE CALL: The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery has fully met the ACGME work hour standards with the implementation of a night float rotation into the orthopaedic surgery resident schedule/curriculum. The night float system consists of PG 2, 3 and 4th year residents. The resident on night float is available for in-house and emergency room consultations as well as the care of the inpatient orthopaedic patients.
  Over the course of the PG 2 year, the resident will complete 3 months of night float; the PGY 3 resident will complete 2 months of night float and the PGY 4 resident will complete 1 month of night float.
  The night float schedule runs from Sunday through Thursday, 7PM - 8AM. This schedule allows the night float resident to attend the mandatory orthopaedic surgery educational conferences, fracture and reading conference, which are held each morning from 6:30-8:00am.
  In-house weekend call, Friday & Saturday, is covered by PGY 2, 3 & 4th years who are not on night float. With this system, the PGY 2 resident will take in-house call approximately 3 weekend days per month, the PGY 3 resident will take in house call approximately 1 weekend day per month and the PGY 4 resident will take in house call approximately 5 weekend days per year.
• BACKUP (HOME) CALL: Senior level residents (PGY 4, 5 ) take call from home and are available for consultation by the in-house resident. The backup is required for all operative procedures during the call day/night. The PGY 4 resident is on backup call approximately 2 days per week and 2 weekends per month; the PGY 5 resident takes back up call approximately 1-2 days per week and 1 weekend per month.
• Clinical responsibilities on weekends are the responsibility of the on-call team of residents. The remaining residents are free of all hospital duty.

Other Services

White coats are provided with free laundry service. A resident lounge is accessible at all hours for recreation and includes a large television, pool table and a contemporary fitness center.