Resident Work Environment Policy
Scope
The policy applies to all MHMH residency and fellowship programs.
Purpose
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Institutional Requirements requires policies regarding the resident work environment. Specific to this policy, MHMH must provide appropriate support services to minimize the work of residents extraneous to the educational programs.
Definition
- Residents on duty in the hospital must be provided adequate and appropriate food services and sleeping quarters.
- Patient support services including an intravenous team, phlebotomy services, laboratory services, and transportation services must be provided in a manner appropriate to, and consistent with, educational objectives and patient care.
- An effective laboratory and radiologic information retrieval system must be in place to provide for appropriate conduct of the educational programs as well as timely, high quality patient care.
- A medical records system that documents the course of each patent's illness and care must be available at all times and must be adequate to support patient care, the educational needs of residents, quality assurance activities, and provide a resource for scholarly activity.
- Appropriate security and personal safety measures must be provided to residents in all locations including but not limited to parking facilities, on-call quarters, hospital and institutional grounds, and related clinical facilities.
- Educational materials to support patient care in the working environment (e.g. computer with internet access, biomedical library materials, etc.) must be available at all times.
