Housestaff Schedules
Frequently Asked Questions:
1) Who makes these schedules?
The chief
residents design the block and day-to-day schedules,
you can click on AMION.com for your
assigned clinic days. Patient scheduling is coordinated at each clinic
site. Ms. Karilyn
Martinez makes the schedule for the housestaff at the
AIM Clinic; her extension is x5-0677, and her e-mail is kam9005@nyp.org. Dr.
Debbie Finklestein and her staff coordinate the
schedule for housestaff at
You may
also contact Dr. Steve Mackey for questions regarding the PGY I OPD Block
schedule, and Nancy Chang, MD for all other questions relating to the resident
ambulatory program. The OPD
Block schedules appears here.
All
cancellations need to be approved by the Chief Residents AND Dr. Chang. Please email all request for cancellations to
the chief residents. Click
here for clinic cancellation policy.
2) What are the "rules" governing my clinic schedule?
Following
guidelines developed by the ACGME,
the rules for block and continuity clinic are summarized here.
3) How do I fit in a rapid follow-up for a discharged patient,
if I am fully booked with new and old patients?
Several
mechanisms exist to ensure rapid access of ambulatory follow up for your
discharged patients. If scheduling a
following up with another provider, please be sure to put an electronic
note to communicate any issues for
follow up. If you are unable to see a
discharge patient in a timely fashion, see below for a list of other possible
providers:
1. Other ward
team residents, or ward co-intern.
2. Your FIRM team members or FIRM attendings and your Firm NPs
3. other residents
on ambulatory months
4. consider
“overbook” your own schedule template, since at times a scheduled new patients
may not show.
4) How can I check my schedule?
Housestaff
schedules are distributed soon after the publication of the Day to Day schedule
from the Chief Residents Office. This
will then be entered into the CADENCE scheduling system If you have any
questions, call Ms. Martinez x5-0677. You can check which patients are
scheduled by accessing the CADENCE
scheduling system (click here for instructions).
5) What if there's a mistake in my schedule?
Mistakes
can happen with over 180 providers in clinic. The more proactive you are about
checking your schedule in advance, and helping to clarify mistakes, the better.
6) What if I'm sick (or pulled for sick call)?
We will
call your patients if your clinic is cancelled, but be aware - some patients do
not have telephones (or have invalid numbers) and will come to clinic anyway.
We will always try to accommodate these patients by having one of the clinic
providers see them to address acute issues that same day.
7) How many patients are scheduled to see me, and what if I get
overwhelmed in clinic?
Click here for details on ACGME
training requirement. Let your clinic
PIC know early if you anticipate problems.
They will help to redistribute patients to less busy providers
(residents, NPs, and attendings).