RESIDENT PHYSICIAN SUPERVISION POLICY

GOAL:
To define responsibility for supervision of Residents in various venues.

POLICY:
Residents involved in patient care are responsible ultimately to the Attending Physician, with intermediate supervision potentially under the auspices of a more senior Resident in the same specialty.

PROCEDURE:
Outpatient Settings: The Resident shall be supervised directly by a designated Attending Physician, whether at the Public Health Department or in a private setting.

Inpatient Settings: The most Senior Resident on a team is responsible directly to the Attending Physician of record, and shall supervise directly the medical care offered by more junior residents, who may in turn supervise the care offered by residents and medical students more junior to them.

Any of the Residents involved in patient care shall have the ability to access directly the responsible Attending Physician.

If a Nurse or other Health Care Worker has a question or concern regarding a Resident's plan/orders, that nurse or health care worker should contact the involved Resident directly. If the ensuing discussion fails to resolve the question/concern, the Nurse or HCW may contact the next most senior resident involved, and so on up the “chain of command,” to the Attending Physician.