Duty Hours Policy

All clinical and academic duties directly related to fellowship training must not exceed 80 hours per week, averaged over a four –week period, inclusive of all in-house call activities.  Any moonlighting hours, if moonlighting is approved, are included in the duty hours monitoring process.

The fellow is to maintain a log of weekly duty hours that is to be submitted to the Program Director monthly for review and verification of compliance with the duty hours limitation.  Upon obtaining evidence of weekly duty hours being in excess of 80 hours, immediate steps will be taken by Program Director to rectify clinical and academic assignments.

Following all clinical assignments involving overnight in-house call responsibility, the fellow will be off of clinical duties the next day.

Within any one-week period, the fellow is to be free of all clinical duties or beeper call at least 24 consecutive hours.

Department Work Environment Provisions for Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellow

The Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care medicine will provide the pediatric anesthesiology fellow with the following:

• Office space with personal computer with online access, including access to INFOLINK online library resources and JEFFLINE (Jefferson Medical College Library resources).
• Laboratory coat with laundry services
• Individual call room when on in-house overnight call
• Meal pass when in hospital for overnight call. The cafeteria has night hours for night shift employees.
• In addition to 4 weeks vacation, the fellow has 5 days of educational conference time with a $1750 yearly stipend. Additional conference time is available for scholarly presentations upon Department and GME office approval.