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· Students, residents, and faculty are not permitted to allow/require deviation from the above rules.
Holidays
· Thanksgiving: shall be observed beginning at 6pm on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and ending on Sunday evening; these count as days off.
· Students are not required to report to clerkships over the university winter break. In rare instances, students may work over winter break to make up for any absences due to residency interviews.
· Other university holidays (e.g., Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Day) shall be treated like weekend days, on which students may be on call.
Procedures
It is the responsibility of both students and clerkship leadership/administration to comply with duty hour guidelines as described above.
The clerkship directors and coordinators are responsible for creating medical student schedules for each individual rotation that comply with the above guidelines. The Office of Curricular Affairs will monitor compliance with Clerkship Directors and Course Directors. The Committee on Curriculum will review work hours violations for each course during course reviews.
Courses and Clerkship directors are also responsible for and expected to disseminate specific duty hour guidelines to residents and attending clinicians who supervise medical students in each course or clerkship.
Students are individually responsible for complying with the duty hour policy and must monitor their hours. Every student is asked to report any concerns of a potential violation in advance to the clerkship director or Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education.
Violations should be reported to the clerkship director, the Assistant Dean for Clinical Curriculum, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, or the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. Reporting duty hour concerns or violations will not affect student grades.
The full policy statement can be found HERE.