Resident Handbook - UC Davis Health System

electives are expected to check their boxes at MFHC at least twice weekly to complete allprescription refills, review lab results, and attend to any messages from patients, staff, or faculty.Appointments are scheduled from 7:45 - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 4:30 p.m., although walk-inpatients are seen up till 11:45 am. and 4:45 pm for each respective clinic. Residents who havecompleted all other patient care responsibilities are expected to be available in clinic to seepatients up to these times. To assure that all walk-in patients are seen, residents must check withboth the preceptor and the desk nurse when leaving the morning clinic before noon or theafternoon clinic before 5 pm. Residents leaving clinic early without checking-out as above willbe scheduled for additional clinic time.Given that processing patients requires 10 to 15 minutes, residents are responsible to be in clinicwithin 15 minutes after their first patient is scheduled. For those residents on ward rotations, themorning clinic starts at 9:00. Please notify Sharon Babcock, RN, the clinic manager if you aregoing to be late so arrangements can be made.Residents will be assigned a maximum number of patients per clinic according to their year ofresidency training:PGY1: 5PGY2: 8PGY3 : 10Additional patients may be added to the schedule if residents have less than the maximumnumber of patients scheduled before the start of their clinic. The front office will continue toschedule these “fill-in” appointments until each residents’ schedule reaches the maximumamount indicated above, providing the “fill-in” patient can be seen by the time the fill-in slot isavailable.In addition to “fill-in” appointments, residents and faculty are expected to see up to oneadditional “work-in” patient per clinic to accommodate patients with urgent healthcareneeds who would have to be sent to the emergency room. As much as possible, the frontoffice staff will schedule these “work-in” appointments during the beginning of theclinic.Residents will not be scheduled the day after call. Preceptors are available in the clinicduring all times of resident patient care.Page 124 of 153GENERAL GUIDELINES1. Confidentiality: must be maintained by keeping charts face down and keeping discussionsabout patients confined to the preceptor room.2. Food and drinks: are not allowed in patient care areas or the preceptor room.C:\Documents and Settings\dhutak\Desktop\rshb13.doc