Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Emergency Department Scheduling

Guidelines for the Resident (PMP) Schedule

Department of Emergency Medicine

All resident clinical scheduling in the Hennepin County Medical Center Emergency Department is made in compliance with ACGME, RRC-EM and Institutional guidelines.

Scheduling Intervals

The Emergency Department PMP schedule is made in six (6) blocks.  These blocks and deadline for off-time requests are as follows:

Departmental Notification

• Rotating Program Coordinators and/or Program Directors will be notified of approaching scheduling deadlines approximately 1 week in advance by email.  Off service (rotating residents) should notify the Emergency Department Scheduling Team regarding any of their residents who are on-call the day before their EM rotation or have clinic responsibilities during their Emergency Medicine rotation at via e-mail at edschedulerequest@hcmed.org.

Vacation and Academic Leave Request Procedure and Guidelines

• Deadlines for time-off requests are noted above.
• The EM department will notify the respective Residency Directors or Coordinators via e-mail for departments with participating residents.Residencydirectors/coordinators will contact their respective residents regarding deadlines.

• Vacations are granted on a first come, first served basis.
• Vacations are granted in 7-day intervals only, from Monday to Monday.
• Vacation block availability can be obtained via email at edschedulerequest@hcmed.org.
• A HCMC Resident Request for Time Away from Service form must be RECEIVED in writing by the scheduling team on or before the deadline. Requests received after the deadline will be returned with no further consideration.
• Give or send the form to Nancy Newkumet in the Department of Emergency Medicine offices. The HCMC Interoffice mail code for the offices is EM 825.

• All vacations will be from 12:01 am on the declared START date through 7:00 am of the RETURN date.
• Vacation request that are granted result in a reduction of shifts during the rotation.

Resident Schedule Requests - Single Day Requests

• Deadlines for single day requests must be submitted prior to the above time-off request dates.
• An email requesting single, non-consecutive single days off must be forwarded to edschedulerequest@hcmed.org. All single day requests start at 12:01 of the requested day off and the return time is 7:00 AM of the next day.
• Requests must be submitted by the resident. No phone or verbal requests will be accepted.
• This form can be used to prevent unacceptable turnaround times when changing services or departmental events. For example, this can be used to notify the ED scheduler that the resident will be post call on the first day of the rotation.
• Up to 1 request off PER BLOCK, 28 days (not per month) can be honored.
• Single day requests off may not be used in conjunction with a vacation request.  Additional requests off cannot be guaranteed during rotations in which vacation is requested.
• Requests for the last day of a rotation cannot be considered.
• Requests using this format will not reduce the number clinical of shifts during a rotation.

Resident On-Call on the Last Night of Rotation

• It is the resident’s responsibility to notify Nancy Newkumet if they will beimmediately post call on the first day of the rotation. Residents who have last night call before they start their ED rotation will be protected as per ACGME, RRC-EM and HCMC Institutional guidelines.
• The ED should be notified withinthe deadlines outlined above.
• Residents will have scheduling consideration for “on call” activities when starting an ED rotation but NOT when leaving the rotation. When a resident is scheduled for the 10 PM to 7 AM shift on the last day of their ED rotation, it is their responsibility to notify the next service that they need protection on their first day, per HCMC policy.
• Per RRC-EM Duty Hour guidelines, residents may be scheduled for any ED shift after a 10 hour period out of the hospital.

Orientation Guideline for the Emergency Medicine Rotation

• All residents must attend an ED orientation session before working in the HCMC Emergency Department.
• ACGME and RRC-EM Duty Hour guidelines will be observed during orientation sessions.

Schedule Distribution Guidelines

• The schedule will tentatively be distributed 2 weeks prior to the start of the scheduling block noted above.
• After the initial schedule distribution, there will be a 3 day review period.  During this time, scheduling concerns should be forwarded to edschedulerequest@hcmed.org.
• The schedule will be considered finalized after this 3 day period unless notified by the Emergency Department Scheduling Team.
• The final schedule will be distributed by Nancy Newkumet.
• HCMC residents will be paged to pick up their schedules from the Emergency Medicine offices.
• Non-HCMC residents may have their schedules emailed to them or they may pick the schedule up from the Emergency Medicine offices.
• Finalized ED schedules can be viewed on www.tangierweb.com.  Login information is available via email at edschedulerequest@hcmed.org.

Annually Prohibitive Dates for Vacations and Leaves

Vacations and leaves will not be granted during the following intervals:

• The first and last 2 weeks of the academic year.
• Major Holidays, including:
• 4th of July weekend
• Labor Day weekend
• Memorial Day weekend
• Thanksgiving week (Monday through Monday)
• December 22nd through January 3rd
• The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting in May
• HCMC G1 Education Day (RED Training Day), TBA
• Semi-Annual Emergency Medicine Resuscitation Months, July 1-July 27 and March 9-April 6th.

Emergency Medicine Scheduling Team

Marc Martel, MD

Eric Gross, MD

Nancy Newkument

Maggie Miller

Joni Egan