5. Resident and Fellow Responsibilities
Junior Resident: (Intern/Moonlighter/Subspecialty Fellow)
- Daily note writing on inpatients covered on AM rounds
- Communicate with ICU fellows / primary teams on consult pts to give plans
- Respond to pages from inpatient floors on consult patients
- Respond to pages on primary service patients if NP unavailable
- Receives new inpatient floor consults
- Maintains Census list along with Senior resident
- Perform “Morning/Night Talks” with surg floor charge nurses at 9 am and 10pm, respectively, when on-call
- Assist w/ traumas if multiple or requested by senior resident/fellow
Senior Residents
- Daily note writing on inpatients covered on AM rounds
- Communicate with ICU fellows / primary teams on consult pts to give plans
- Respond to pages from ER on consult patients
- Respond to pages on primary service patients if NP unavailable
- Maintains Census list along with Junior resident
- Assists junior resident w/ unfamiliar bedside procedures (CT removal, etc.)
- “Doc-Right” in Trauma bay for all trauma
- Provide guidance to Jr resident regarding floor consults / inpt management
- Help coordinate team after rounds regarding calling primary services about consult patients, pre-op for tomorrow’s cases, procedures to be done, etc.
Sub-specialty Fellows
- Expected to attend AM rounds weekdays, and on-call weekends
- OR case coverage as assigned by the Pediatric Surgery Fellows at rounds
- Clinic / sub-specialty duties as structured by the sub-specialty fellowship
- Perform duties of Senior or Junior resident depending on the call schedule
- Maintain and rotate on the Transplant Harvest Call Schedule
- Assist with care of ECMO patients
- Assist with PM rounds on the occasion that a Pediatric Surgery Fellow is not available to run rounds.
All NICU calls, regardless of how trivial, should be redirected to a Pediatric Surgery Fellow