Call Responsibilities
The resident on call on nights and weekends covers both Shands and the VA hospitals. Call is rotated among all neurology residents not on vacation, so that the on-call frequency should not exceed one in five nights. Call is taken from home, but facilities are available for residents unable to return home. The resident on call is responsible for cross-covering all patients on the ward, including the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, for seeing all consultations from the Emergency Room and from the wards, and for answering outside calls from patients and physicians. Residents will notify the attending neurologist on call at Shands or at the VAMC of any but the most routine occurrence, and even of routine matters if they are a beginning resident. Attendings are responsible for back-up, in case the neurology resident has more than one emergent situation to handle at the same time. Ward residents on each side of the street must sign out to the on-call resident each afternoon, and the on-call resident must report to the ward teams each morning. Whenever possible, the on-call resident will be present on attending rounds to participate in the discussion of patients admitted during the previous night.
On average, PGY-2 residents take 4-5 calls per month, PGY-3 residents 3-4 call per month, PGY-4 residents take 2-3 calls per month.
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