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GENERAL INFORMATION
BUMC BASICS
Scheduled rounds:
• Attending rounds: Usually 5 times per week, schedule
determined usually at the beginning of the month
• Morning Report: For R2’s and R3’s, every M,W,F from
7-8 a.m.
Conferences:
• Noon conference daily: Roberts Medical Education
Classroom
• Grand Rounds: Tuesday at 8 a.m. in Beasley Auditorium
• Chief’s Conference: Every Friday at noon in the Truett
Conference Room 8ABC (get lunch from the Truett
Cafeteria or Doctor’s lounge and charge it to the room);
during interview season, chief’s conference is on
Thursdays (interview day) on 17 Roberts and buffet is
served
• Potpourri: During Chief’s conference once monthly:
Cases presented by interns and residents
• Intern/Resident Evaluations/Med Student: Last Friday of
each ward month. Residents and Attendings meet at 7:00
and interns meet at 7:30. It is in a conference room
outside of the Truett cafeteria. Get breakfast and charge it
to the room.
Call schedule:
• On general medicine wards: Call every fifth night.
• On CCU, call every fourth night.
• On electives, no call and no weekends except for select
electives when you may work on Saturday (ie ID).
• On ER, no clinic and no call. You work 12-hour shifts,
7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. in the following format:
3 day shifts, 3 night shifts, 3 days off.
• Float month: No call and no weekends. The Float
resident also usually does not work on holidays, so be
considerate and try not to ask them to cover you on those
days.