Resident Handbook - UC Davis Health System

hospital care of common ENT conditions is provided to each resident and is considered arequired component of the rotation.A. Service GoalsELECTIVESElectives are primarily intended to enrich the residents’ training with experiencesrelevant to their future practice, their special interests, or for rounding out the trainingexperience with competencies not attained through the required rotations. As adultlearners responsible for their continuing medical education beyond residency, eachresident must be able to identify educational opportunities and then craft experiences thatwill address those individual needs. The program supports and encourages this selfdirectedlearning opportunity. Up to one month of elective time may be used forremediation, determined by the Residency Program Director.B. Service DescriptionThere are 1-2 months of elective time in the PGY II year, and 2-3 months in the R-3 year.While on Elective, residents participate fully in their continuity health center duties, call,and conference attendance. If an Away Elective is approved by the Program Director,even if that time is taken locally, the resident has no health center, call or conferenceresponsibilities, which nearly doubles the actual amount of time for the electiveexperience(s) during this Away Elective block. While we will make every attempt toaccommodate resident requests for time away, that is not a guarantee, because ofMedicare funding, and provision of continuity services to the residents’ patients at theFPC. International electives must meet the criteria below before they will be considered.Out of state electives will also require exceptional justification. Finally, ResearchElectives can be structured as a research or academic project, focused on a research orevidence based literature clinical project resulting in a formal presentation at GrandRounds.C. DutiesThe residency must comply with the regulations of both the Accreditation Council forGraduate Medical Education (ACGME) and Medicare for the appropriate approval anddocumentation of elective time. Without this documentation, credit cannot be given tothe resident for the elective rotation. Further, the hospital will be in violation of itsfinancial obligations to Medicare and cannot be paid the monies that support theresidency program. For these reasons, the Elective Form, which contains therequired steps to obtain approval for the elective and document approval from thesupervising physician, must be completed in its entirety. If the resident has notsubmitted the proper and completed Form to the Program Director (who approvesPage 37 of 153C:\Documents and Settings\dhutak\Desktop\rshb13.doc