DUTIES.

A Chief Resident is a senior-level resident who has been assigned administrative and training responsibilities within the residency training program that are in addition to those regularly performed by other residents in his or her department and post-graduate year; such duties frequently include:

• supervising and training junior residents;
• developing rotation, conference, journal club, lecture, and on-call schedules;
• acting as a resident liaison;
• providing formal medical student education;
• monitoring and recording attendance;
• reassigning residents as necessary for coverage issues when unplanned absences occur (due to illness, etc.);
• making decisions on behalf of his or her department; and
• performing other administrative duties as assigned by his or her Director of Residency Training ("Director").
  
  TITLE.

A Chief Resident is appointed by his or her Director and is generally in his or her final year of residency (e.g., surgery) or is working for an additional year after residency is completed (e.g., internal medicine and pediatrics). Some post-graduate training programs require that each resident serve as Chief Resident in the last or next to last year of training. The Director may give the title of Chief Resident to as many residents in his or her program as perform Chief Resident duties.

COMPENSATION.

Each training program is authorized to award additional compensation beyond the PGY compensation for one FTE Chief Resident per year, at the rate of $3,000 per year (the "differential"). Any program that has 10 residents or more is authorized to award the differential to additional Chief Residents, on the basis of one FTE differential for each 10 residents in the training program, not to exceed a total of 10 Chief Residents in a single program. At the discretion of the Director, the differential may be prorated among Chief Residents when the duration of a Chief Resident's term of appointment as Chief Resident is less than one year. The Director must obtain approval from the Residency Control Board before the number of compensated Chief Residents may be increased beyond the total established for the program in 2004.

Directors have the discretion to develop Chief Resident Appointment policies for their respective training programs that are more restrictive than this policy.