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UVA Inpatient: Call on Hem/Onc Week

 
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How should students on Hem/Onc service address the issue of evening call?

These students should not be on call. (Shifts call burden to students not on HemOnc week)  
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They should admit patients and present them to the on-call resident without a write-up. (Status quo)  
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A Hem/Onc week should not be included as part of the inpatient rotation. (Increases number of students on General Service)  
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:15 pm    Post subject: UVA Inpatient: Call on Hem/Onc Week Reply with quote
During the inpatient hem/onc week at UVA, students on call are not required to write a full H&P on a General Peds patient they admit, since they will not be followed on the Hem/Onc service.

The question has been raised: should students on Hem/Onc week take evening call, since they regularly admit Hem/Onc patients during off-call days? This would increase the call burden to all students.

How should this issue be addressed?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think the status quo is best. Not that I like the current system, but I think the other options are too problematic. Eliminating the hem-onc week would put too many students on the general service (already too many students). If hem-onc students didn't take call, the call would be too frequent for the remaining students. I think the best option would be to have hem-onc students not take call and not ask the general patients to take extra call to make up for this.
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