The CRI and PGME would like to thank everyone engaged in this massive effort to ensure patient care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents, administrators, program directors, service chiefs, faculty, departmental chiefs, and chairs – thank you!
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PGME and our COVID relief coordinators will continue to provide weekly updates of resident availability and hospital need even in the absence of redeployment |
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PGY1s cannot be first call without in-house senior supervision as per article 12.08 of the FMRQ contract: When call duty is performed in an establishment, the resident, in the six (6) months following the start of his residency, shall be able to count at all times on the presence, on-site, of a physician who is a member of the Council of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists or of a resident other than a Resident 1. |
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Residents should be freed for their academic half-days during their COVID relief assignments. |
COVID Assignment Rules
- Service Chiefs must provide orientation for residents to your clinical setting on their first day (ideally starting off-service residents not familiar with your clinical setting on day shift).
- Please ensure that your resident knows how to use PPE properly and is aware of local safety measures.
- It is your team’s responsibility to assess redeployed residents. Residents will send their main supervisor a redeployment assessment form via one45 to be filled out at the end of their redeployment assignment.
Resident Schedules
The FMRQ contract is still in effect.
It is your responsibility to organize the residents’ schedules. This involves providing them with a work schedule. Please remember that PMGE’s COVID relief initiative is structured as follows:
- Will be one week long.
- Efforts will be made to limit redeployment assignments to 1 week per resident/per academic year.
- Redeployments are full-time, i.e., 5 to 7 workdays per 7 days.
- If the number of workdays goes beyond 5, the extra days will be considered call.
- The maximum number of calls per period, as per the FMRQ contract, must be respected (and therefore coordinated with the resident’s regular rotation).
- Will include a mix of daytime, evening, and night shifts. The duration of shifts will be between 8 and 12 hours, in accordance with the FMRQ contract.
ÌýCall Obligations
- Redeployed residents are released from the call obligations of their scheduled rotation during the period of redeployment.
- This will require close collaboration between program offices and the hospital leadership to avoid undue pressure for service coverage.
- Redeployment schedules will be planned with enough advance notice to allow for call schedule reorganization.